What is loss and how do you measure it? It’s a bit slippery, coming out of the corners of the day. It’s certainly an emotion or feeling that often comes along with a memory. I walk by moms room and I think she might need something or I see a family picture and recall a fun time together. I don’t feel much pain or heavy sadness with our two moms. I think it will be much different if it were my wife or children. With our moms, it is sort of normal at their ages. Their lives have reached into 8 decades and they left many good stories behind. There is an absence of loss there. There is more loss with someone that is younger and has so much life left to live.
There are many kinds of loss I think. Maybe that’s why people grieve in different ways. Maybe the loss is measurable, I don’t know or really care. What I do care about is that I honor the people in my life that have moved on. That honoring can take many forms as well. So many lessons to learn as well. Honor your parents as much as you can when they are alive, that’s for sure. I miss both of them. Love you mom’s.