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Showing posts with label Thoughtful Thursdays. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thoughtful Thursdays. Show all posts

Thursday, September 4, 2014

My Thoughts on Thursday



This is my first Thursday in Septemeber and sometimes, I still have to be kind to myself. Yes, this was one of my lesson's I learned in August and it's been a little struggle even though we are only four days in. I blog because it's my way of relieving myself of the guilt behind my daughter's death and trying to find some logic behind, why she had to leave so soon. Why I am still here? These are the things, I struggle with every day.

I thought my life was moving along great and at the age of 37 I was burying my 15 year old daughter. Some people say time heals almost everything, give the time, sometime. Boy oh boy, I wish this time will go by fast. So, I am using this time to heal the heart's of other's who might be feeling the same way I do. Yes, the time will come, when we don't get up in the middle of the night and cry, but we will never forget our loved ones.

During this process I learn to stop thinking too much, because I gave myself permission to say I don't know all the answers. It took me 37 years to actually give myself permission to say I don't know. I grow up in a household, where if you don't know an answer you was made fun of; so you just start making up answers so you can just be okay. The death of my 15 year old daughter finally made me realize, that I don't have to know everything, Stop THINKING TOO MUCH.

My last thoughtful, thought on this Thursday is that I will leave you is Don't Compare your Life with others, You have NO IDEA what their journey is all about. It's easy to read an article and say, if I was this person, I'll do this? But, would you, if you was in their journey? Think about this before you start casting judgement based on what you read or see; their journey may be bigger than you see.