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Hi everyone, I am new here and hoping this will help me out. I am 22 and lost my grandfather Pops on Easter. It hit me hard then but all of a sudden tonight I just looked up and saw his picture on my wall and all the emotions came back twice as hard. Part of me feels I never really dealt with any of it because I have had so much going on. I am a full time college student and work a full time job at a local theme park supervising the front gate area. Just this week school has ended for break and the park is now closed for the season so I have had time to catch up on everything and let my life settle for a little bit. Pops had over come so much that I always felt he would never die and I would have him forever. I know this sounds crazy but when the doctors tell you that he will never walk again after a stroke and the man does walk again, you cant help but think he will get through anything. Pops lived in CA while I live in FL. For the past three years I always went out there to see him and my aunt who also lived out there. This is the time of year I would go out there to see him or the whole family would go out here on Christmas. Tonight I think was the first real night I just sat and cried. Cried hard and didnt care. It was the first night I didnt try to put it in the back of my head saying I will deal with it later. I dealt with it tonight. I am hoping that writing here will help me cope with his loss and come to peace with it. So I would like to say sorry right now if I seem to drag on or if I dont make any sense.
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Dont be sorry for anything sometimes just saying whats on your mind makes you feel better. the holidays are hard. its my first holiday without my mother
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I\'m going through the exact same thing. I lost my grandmother last week and I\'m kind of postponing alot of the grief bc i have my final exams this week. I think its important to have a good cry once in a while or whenever you feel like you need it. We all need to accept griefing as natural, who cares if people see us cry. My one bit of advice for people is not to think that each time you cry is your last and to never give yourself a time frame. I get all these people telling me that it will all be better soon. I don\'t believe that, griefing takes as long as it takes and I\'m not going to rush it and neither should anyone else. Besides my little angry note, I\'m also getting sad with christmas right around the corner and when I visit my family I\'ll be without the big anchor of our family but I like to think that shes celebrating it in heaven with her friends and the grandfather I never met.
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