Grief

Grief is an obstacle we face at some point in our life. It's not the easiest thing to recover from but eventually we get through the hurt. We can all relate to losing a very important person who formed a big part of our lives at some point. We lose people in our lifetime that are dear to us for a specific reason what really matters is that the time they spent with you while they were alive and how you used that time to show them how much you loved them. At the age of nine I lost my great grandpa who was like another father to me. I remember when they had called my mom to tell her he had passed away she rushed to get her things packed. I was worried because she wouldn't say where she was going until after she was gone because she knew we wouldn't have let her go by herself especially since it was my great grandpa. I didn't think it was fair for him to leave yet there were still many things we had not experienced together. My favorite moments were when we would go to get candy at the little shop that was around the corner from his house in Mexico. The very last time I saw him was two years before he had passed away I couldn't bare his passing. I didn't get a chance to see him one last time because he had passed away when we were still in school my parents wouldn't have taken us out of school to go to Mexico for his funeral. I couldn't forgive myself for not seeing him at least one last time even if he wasn't alive it would've of meant the world to me to at least be beside him.

Now that I look back I understand my parents intentions of not letting me go because I could have fallen behind in school and would've struggled for the rest of the school year. My parents thought they had done the right thing, but they didn't know how much it had affected me. I blamed myself for not spending time with him the last two years he was still here with us just even a simple thought of him would break me down. Three years had passed since he left us