Recently lost my Auntie, who I was extremely close to. Grief is such a hard thing that every one goes through at one point or another in their life and yet I don’t think it’s spoke about enough for the people left behind.
I struggle with it because I feel like I don’t have the right to grieve due to her daughters, my mother and grandmother losing someone who seems more important despite her being unbelievably important to me.
However, something I really learnt from my Auntie and grief, is that you can’t take life for granted, to take every single positive in life as a win even if it’s how beautiful the sky is, or how great a meal tastes because we really do only get one life and to not live it because we are consumed by body image, status or anything that social media portrays as important these days has now become very scary to me.
While this has broke me, it has also made me too. It’s made me confident in a way I didn’t know I could be because the worst thing has happened, that now I feel like nothing can upset me, nothing could possibly be worse than what’s already happened. The only positive to this, is that I am ready to live life and that I am grateful for just life itself.