Closing moments…
When a life ends, we as humans want closing moments. A time to pause, reflect, and say goodbye. A moment to grieve. A moment to cry. What happens to the grief when there are no closing moments? Do we ever really say goodbye-- move on? It was my Uncle’s wish to be cremated and NOT have a funeral, and so there will be no closing moments in our family for his life. And I for one feel lost. I don’t know what I’m supposed to do. Where will that goodbye moment come from? How long will unshed grief linger?

Some relationships end the same way… without closure. Those relationships are the ones that we seem to hang onto throughout the years. Those are the ones that haunt you. Those relationships that live in our hearts are what we measure all other relationships by-- are the ones we never seem to really get over-- that never have closing moments. They linger like a heart murmur, like a condition we live with, survive. They become ours. Our ghosts. And we hold them close needing to feel them. Never really saying goodbye or moving on…  posted by Matildakay at 7:20 PM