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Grief doesn’t necessarily have a resolution.

It isn’t a finish line to cross or a task to complete.

But a constant state of mind

It never truly goes away.

It festers,

until you learn to live with it

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if love were enough to save someone he'd be okay.

but I know now

that my love cannot fix him, cannot save him.

or convince him

to fix or save himself.

- Jessica Jocelyn

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Carrying grief at a young age means every single milestone and happy moment is forever tainted a little grey.

Simply because you are not here to celebrate it with me.

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The grief never leaves, but slowly it starts to feel less like it's strangling you and more like it's holding your hand.

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I want to leave you something, something better than words, or sounds. Look for me in the people I’ve known or loved, and if you cannot give me away, at least let me live in your eyes and not your mind.

- Merrit Malloy

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My Roman Empire was imagining a functional family where we talked about our feelings and where more open instead of brushing everything under the rug when things got difficult.

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I was a child. My spine wasn’t developed enough to be your pillar.

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By loosing myself in books and shows and lost boy bands. I am able to leave the reality of my life and find comfort in fiction and things that will never be.

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Moving on doesn't mean forgetting.

It means continuing life despite what's happened and not allowing yourself to be trapped in it.

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I’m struggling coming to terms with the fact it’s been a year.

Time is a concept that moves too quickly

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Music isn’t just lyrics and melodies.

It’s an escape

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You can’t heal in the place that hurt you

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Once it started to become normal to speak about you in the past tense, I lost you for a second time.

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Triggers are sometimes more obvious, like birthdays or anniversaries, but often times they are more subtle; a song, a book, a saying. The ones I don’t see coming are so much more painful.

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His voice. Please don’t let me forget his voice.

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Time heals wounds but the scars remain

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The jealousy I feel when I see a dad and a daughter enrages me, I shouldn’t have to feel this way.

Seeing elderly men and knowing my dad never got to live to be that age.

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