…crying (I’ve taken several breaks to not cry while writing this) but those words still make me gag. They are generalizations — coping mechanisms in their own way. Empty sound bites without that painful, exposed center that is the never-healing wound of our grief.
In many articles like these, folks usually segue now into lessons learned from these tragedies. That you should live every day to its fullest, or like it’s your last. That you should always say what you think and feel because you never know if you’ll have another ch…