Losing a Bit of Ourselves

People die. It happens all the time. If someone really close to you dies, it's sort of like losing a part of yourself. If you live long enough, you will experience this for yourself. There is pain, it goes very, very deep. There is loss. And there is really nothing to do about it. Except experience it. You don't want to forget. Forgetting is losing a part of your life, part of yourself too. You want to honor the person you have lost, and the time you have spent together. When we let people into our lives we are creating something together, something unique and extraordinary. When we lose these people, we are losing a bit of ourselves too. So you remember, and feel the pain, feel the loss, forever, or at least as long as you can remember, that's how life goes.