Let me tell you how I experience some aspects of grief.
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Yesterday I was sitting in a Starbucks on a busy street corner in Lafayette, CA. Christmas music filled the air. Despite my best efforts to hold them off tears started pouring from my eyes and rolling down my cheeks. I could not control it.
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I am out-of-my-home-area on my sentimental journey to California. For one week I have been "strong" - holding all feelings back. Acting like a "big girl". No crying.
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Now sitting in this very nice small Starbucks where Jim and I have had coffee in past years something has knocked down my defenses and I am crying. Just a bit at first - and I work hard to push feelings down - because if the tears start I won't be able to stop them until they have dried out.
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I feel incredibly alone - and there is nothing to do but to face it.
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I miss Jim. Its that simple.
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When the realization that he is gone forces itself to the surface - it is absolutely too much.
That sounds dramatic doesn't it. Well that is how it is with grief. It is dramatic and
you work really hard to hide it.
If you are grieving you get "credit" for not showing it.
Let me tell you how I experience some aspects of grief.
**
Yesterday I was sitting in a Starbucks on a busy street corner in Lafayette, CA. Christmas music filled the air. Despite my best efforts to hold them off tears started pouring from my eyes and rolling down my cheeks. I could not control it.
**
I am out-of-my-home-area on my sentimental journey to California. For one week I have been "strong" - holding all feelings back. Acting like a "big girl". No crying.
**
Now sitting in this very nice small Starbucks where Jim and I have had coffee in past years something has knocked down my defenses and I am crying. Just a bit at first - and I work hard to push feelings down - because if the tears start I won't be able to stop them until they have dried out.
**
I feel incredibly alone - and there is nothing to do but to face it.
**
I miss Jim. Its that simple.
**
When the realization that he is gone forces itself to the surface - it is absolutely too much.
That sounds dramatic doesn't it. Well that is how it is with grief. It is dramatic and
you work really hard to hide it.
If you are grieving you get "credit" for not showing it.
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