i’ve been thinking about illness a lot, for obvious reasons. all this time i’ve been avoiding thinking about it bc it’s something that we have absolutely zero control over which is just. the worst. but i think it’s better to allow yourself time to sit with the fact that our bodies are powerful but not invincible and sometimes the people you love will leave you and go somewhere far away. take comfort in the fact that people everywhere have to deal with this, and they make it through. also, people live little lives inside of you, in the inside jokes, the birthdays, the recipes, and the gifts, and those will never go away so long as you remember.