Managing Grief
A close friend's mother passed away yesterday afternoon & I saw her post on FB this morning. [Context: I so very rarely go on FB, incidentally this morning was one of the rare occasions when I logged in & had read the post + subsequent posts].
Her mom had been diagnosed with kidney failure a few years back and yesterday she bid everybody goodbye. The passing of someone, anyone is so very sad.. never mind a mommy.. this is a sacred relationship- someone who bore you in her womb for 9 months and 10 days.. and probably someone who knows you more than yourself. [Again, I am contextualising to biological moms who bore the child and raises her; unique mixed families may have had their own equally special and wonderful experiences].
Her subsequent posts were equally sad- about how she missed her- about how the love cannot be expressed to someone who has left one's side- and only prayers will be said to ease her way in the afterlife.
That's probably how I had felt when my late father passed on in 1991. We had missed him so very much. Now we still do, and wonder all the time what type of conversations we would have had with him in our adulthood (he always have so many ideas & funny stories).. how happy he would be to see all his grandchildren.. and basically how he would look like in old age.
To my dearest friend, may your mother's soul be blessed endlessly by the Almighty and may she be granted Jannah for all her deeds. May you & your family be granted the strength to overcome this challenge, and may you always remember the great moments you have had with her.
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