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TIDE TALK — REFLECTIONS ON GRIEF AND NEW BEGINNINGS
Moving Forward With a Year of Celebrations
“Life is 10 percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.” — Lou Holtz
A Year of Celebrations
Following on from last week’s Tide Talk, I’ve been reflecting on years gone by and thinking about the year ahead.
The end of March will mark the fourth anniversary of losing my dad, and I wonder where the time has gone. How can it be four years already? Time doesn’t heal — as the saying goes, it just makes things easier to navigate. Although, in other ways, it makes it all too real. The more time that passes, the more I realise he’s really gone, he won’t be coming back, and his chair will remain empty.
But as time keeps ticking and his presence is missed, this is a bittersweet year that also includes many celebrations. In May, my husband and I will celebrate 25 years together. We met a few weeks before my 22nd birthday and three months before his 25th. We instantly knew that we’d both met the one and moved in together five months later. But some days, I feel like I’ve blinked and missed everything.
