Donna
I received a package yesterday and it came from Donna, a friend I met when I was a student at the University of the Philippines. She gave me a book to read to help me with my grief. I would like to share snippets of what I've read and felt while reading this book. The book is entitled, "Winter Grief, Summer Grace - Returning to Life After a Loved One Dies" written by James E. Miller.
Donna is from Beaverton, Oregon. It has been ages since I last saw her but she has a profound influence in my life. She was and will always be a teacher. Back in my college days, I found her work ethic and ideals kindred to mine. She was my favorite teacher who inspired me to reach out to my fullest potentials and now, here I am in the United States.
The first two pages already made me cry. "Someone who has been a part of your days on earth no longer walks the earth with you. Life is not the same. And it hurts."
It hits me at the very core and tore open wounds that I was desperately trying to heal. It isn't fair. Why did you have to die? Why must I walk this earth alone again? What is the purpose of all this pain? Why did you leave me?
Did you think that it is easy to live life in solitude? Did you believe too much in my strength that I can do this alone? Twenty seven years with you is a lifetime. How can I possibly build again? I have no more dreams, no more hope, no sense of being the same person. I am lost without you.
Donna is from Beaverton, Oregon. It has been ages since I last saw her but she has a profound influence in my life. She was and will always be a teacher. Back in my college days, I found her work ethic and ideals kindred to mine. She was my favorite teacher who inspired me to reach out to my fullest potentials and now, here I am in the United States.
The first two pages already made me cry. "Someone who has been a part of your days on earth no longer walks the earth with you. Life is not the same. And it hurts."
It hits me at the very core and tore open wounds that I was desperately trying to heal. It isn't fair. Why did you have to die? Why must I walk this earth alone again? What is the purpose of all this pain? Why did you leave me?
Did you think that it is easy to live life in solitude? Did you believe too much in my strength that I can do this alone? Twenty seven years with you is a lifetime. How can I possibly build again? I have no more dreams, no more hope, no sense of being the same person. I am lost without you.