Grief Sucks 😐
I think I’m gonna use this , completely differently then I use my other platforms since it seems so different.
So I’ll be vulnerable,
In April I lost my mom , and this whole grieving process has been absolutely devastating. It’s coming up on a year a she passed around my birthday so I’m tryna still be excited for it but it’s hard.
A lot of days I be good , but then randomly I’ll be in a pit , and cry and be ready to just shut everything down and out. I would call her everyday since the day I moved out and went to college. And now I feel like I gotta relearn Everything , even myself without her. I know she’s here spirit but it doesn’t make the pain go away.
Sometimes I just dk what to do 🥺😐🙁 #griefjourney
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