Senior Project Book Intro

When someone close to you dies, your whole world feels foreign. This is the first time an emotion this strong and sad has taken a hold of you. You may feel like everything that used to feel right now feels wrong. You may be scared, you may be angry. Whatever you are feeling is ok. There is no wrong or right way to feel. It’s ok to listen to suggestions from others, but these emotions are something you alone are going to have to come to terms with in your own personal way. Not to say you are alone; you are most definitely not alone. It is the painful truth that everyone must die, as you are very aware of at the moment. We all will experience death. With every death comes the devastated friends and family left behind.

And here is where you are. You lost someone, in the deepest, most painful sense known to humanity. There is nothing you can do to change this fact. Today will be hard, tomorrow might be worse, but the days are going to keep coming. You will always feel this loss, but it’s going to dim and over time become more manageable. This does not mean you will forget or that you care about the person you lost any less. It just means you had to keep living, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that.

Sometimes people need help. There is nothing wrong with looking for assistance when something is too much to take on alone. If you need to turn to a friend, you should. If you think talking to someone who has experience with loss will help, any grief counselor will be equipped to aid you. There are many websites that offer advice and can point you in the direction to seek further support. Alone or with help you can grieve in the way best suited for you.

This book holds no secrets to “moving on” or “getting over it”. There is no such thing as getting over losing someone you care about. You are always going to remember and care for them as you did before they died. The only difference is they are no longer present in your life physically. This book will help you remember them the way they were and to keep these memories for the future.