The acute pain of losing your sibling seems to suffocate you at times. We all know these feelings of grief, “try to get out of bed today”, ” just take the pain minute-by-minute, hour-by-hour”, “keep busy and it will not really seem true”. Did you ever think of the long term effect of this pain? I know it seems not fair to think about, but a new “grief” question struck me the other day. After my brother passed, his branch on the family tree crumbled. So not only was he taken from me early in life, his part of our family history was gone, just vanished. It may seem like common sense to some, but grief is a form of chronic pain. The hole his absence has created in my life, brought on many painful questions.
Tags: Broken Branches
I know my whole family crumbled. We only talk to each other when absolutely needed and never more. It tears me up to think of what has happened but my sister has thrown herself further into her children, my brother into work and friends and my parents into their church. I just sit here wanting to be able to call them and talk to them about my brother but when I bring him up on phone calls they hurry up and get off the phone making lame excuses…