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More grief/trauma dumping ahead, read with precaution.
Like I know the whole phrase of how parents should never have to bury their children and I wholeheartedly believe that, but being a teenager and burying a parent fucking sucks. I’m also not trying to say that one grief is worse or one is less but like I’ve been really feeling the whole guilt side of grief, like a whole lot of guilt. I’ve been having pretty intense brain-fogs because of how intense the whole process has been. And for a moment a few nights ago I genuinely couldn’t remember my own mothers face, her voice, she was nothing more than a black silhouette in my memories and that was so terrifying. Especially because my older sibling chose to go no contact for a lot of different reasons but that also means that the pressure of like remembering her in life all falls on me- which is like not in anybody’s control but like that just makes feeling like this, and those moments of forgetting even more like heavy. I didn’t even want to leave my bed a few nights ago because I felt like such a failure. It’s so difficult but sometimes writing it does feel like it gets it off my chest