The Art Of Our Thoughts

The thing about loss and death

I don't know why exactly I've been thinking about it a lot.

But my mind is kind of a maze so I guess here we are.

When I say loss, I mean losing people to death. And that's something I've never really encountered.

Of course there are people I've known that passed away, but no one close to me, no one that made me feel pain, and that's scary as hell.

Because death is inevitable, hence so is loss.

How would it feel?

I always imagined that when having someone around you so much, and then be taken away is sort of shocking at first.

Shocking as in you can't really comprehend that this person is no longer with you, that you won't be able to talk to eachother, or touch, or laugh, or cry. They just aren't physically there,

And I guess that takes time to register in our minds.

Does it feel the same way when someone dear to you goes away to another country? But this time they're living there permenantly.

How incredibely numbing to not have a person with you anymore.

It hurts us in sort of a surreal way, almost like it leaves a void inside of us, an emptiness that used to be filled with that person's aura, but now it isn't.

Does that mean that one day someone else will come and fill this void?

I don't know actually. I don't know if that place inside of us is dedicated to that person only, or the feeling they give off.

So when another person comes and give that exact same feeling, that void inside of us is filled up again.

I'd like to believe that, it's less scary and more comforting to believe that.
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Dedicated to: To all those we lost in our lives.

-S.S.