Letting go
A wise person once said that the past cannot be changed, forgotten, edited or erased, it can only be accepted, and that is so true. Acceptance of your past, your failures, your losses, it’s all so very important for a mentally healthy and emotionally strong mind. Acceptance is the key to moving on and creating a happy life for yourself. However, if you suffer a traumatic loss then those lines of acceptance become so torn up and twisted that it’s hard to move. Like a rabbit in headlights, you become stuck, fixated on a certain date, a tragic moment in time that changed your life inexplicably. I’ve been trying to sort your things Neve. I haven’t attempted your bedroom yet but you’re literally everywhere, bits of you in every room still, serving as painful little reminders of your absence. Your mug with pyjama day written on it is still in the kitchen cupboard. Some of your shampoo and fake tan still in the bathroom cabinet. I’ve put the book you were reading, the page folded ...