Who do you remember?
Jul 12th 2008PostmasterFriends & Family & Grief
So many friends, relatives, work mates and loved ones are afflicted with cancer that it is hard to imagine that anyone over the age of twenty would not have had someone they know who survived or has died. For those who have lost someone, there is a hole in our hearts and the memories we cherish. There may also be sad memories of how the cancer ravaged their bodies and their minds in the late stages of their disease.
We hope that the departed are in some place better. We are left with our memories and our wondering of what might have been. And we are left more sensitive and more fearful to what cancer means and we can get much more personally familiar with it. Not necessarily what we want.
People support us, lift our spirits and help to define our own lives to some extent. The death of someone who you know can force you to question your own immortality, which can be good or bad depending on the individual.
But friends and loved ones who die can also inspire us and their memories can comfort us. The memories of my father do that for me.
Who do you remember and do you handle it?
Let’s talk……..
Posted by Doug
