I was just thinking tonight how I feel like having lost my husband feels like a problem that I need fixed.
You know much like a problem where you forgot to pay your electricity or gas bill and you need to do something before those things get turned off. Or where you missed putting gasoline in your car and you are almost out, or you forgot about an important meeting that's starts in 10 minutes but the location is 15 minutes away and you aren't dressed for it. Or, the darn computer keeps giving you a headache because it operates so slow a snail is able to move faster. Or you had a fight with your best friend and need to make amends. Or you hit someone's car and know you need to tell them but you can't quite get the nerve to do it.
All these problems are fixable and sometimes unavoidable, but they all bring inside a person a similar feeling. I keep feeling lately that there's a solution to this situation I'm in, that somehow I can rewind time and things will be just fine again, or that somehow I'm stuck in a horrific dream and can't quite wake up from it, or sometimes I feel like I missing that one thing I can do to FIX this problem.
We didn't have any problems, well, at least not when he slipped away. I'm rather fortunate that things are where they are. He was preparing for THIS and didn't realize it and neither did I, until IT happened.
I know that this isn't a fixable problem, at least not in the immediate future. I'm adjusting to life as a sole parent on Earth and trying to do what a team of two did together, doing it solo now. I'm finding a groove slowly, it's not easy, not fun (well maybe once in a while), but there are things that were so much better when he was here.
I've lost pretty much any desire to cook (and I loved to do that before - my poor kids), I've lost any desire to really "clean" anything or declutter or anything like that. I've gained more of a desire to need to be with other people, it's weird I'm a people person, so I'm trying to make sure I'm mom when I need to be, but still trying to create who I am now without the man I've been with for the last 16+ years.
Tears are still coming unannounced. But really the timing is slightly predictable - during the night, on Sundays, when I'm reading things of spiritual natures, or when I just have silence and start to think about what has changed. Trying to keep moving forward, but sometimes I don't know which way is really forward because I feel like I've been spinning out of control for the last 11 weeks almost and even longer if you count the month he was sick before he passed away. I'm trying to find some firm footings somewhere to know where to go and what to do and right now I've got nothing except to find another home.
It will be bitter sweet, no matter when it is but I know that the only good sleep I've had was when we had our furnace go out and we stayed in Santaquin with my father in law at his home. The kids loved that and so did I.
There isn't such thing as normal. I used to think that there was, but really I keep thinking that everyone that I see could be gone later that same day or the next or in a week. Life is seriously precious and really is giving me an indication that it's meant to be lived and not feared, but still there is some anxiety when I think that so and so could be next, or heck even myself. (Of course, I hope not for a very long time).
And that brings me to the phrase "If we endure it well". I've been learning what that really means the last two months and have gathered that it doesn't simply mean to sit around and not do anything but to really ENJOY and be HAPPY while I'm enduring. I equate enduring to living. Granted there is a time for pause while a grieving person is trying to get their feet on solid ground again and head out from the fog that encapsulates it during this time. But when the dust settles and feet are firmly planted once again, it's time to get to work.
Again if I haven't said it already I don't wish this on my worst enemy. Losing someone really brings to light those things that are of worth and worth our time and those things that don't really matter. I'm not really "living" right now I'm kind of just floating along and in a daze at that. That's why I'm writing my thoughts down so that I'll remember them later, when I really need to fall back on it.
You know much like a problem where you forgot to pay your electricity or gas bill and you need to do something before those things get turned off. Or where you missed putting gasoline in your car and you are almost out, or you forgot about an important meeting that's starts in 10 minutes but the location is 15 minutes away and you aren't dressed for it. Or, the darn computer keeps giving you a headache because it operates so slow a snail is able to move faster. Or you had a fight with your best friend and need to make amends. Or you hit someone's car and know you need to tell them but you can't quite get the nerve to do it.
All these problems are fixable and sometimes unavoidable, but they all bring inside a person a similar feeling. I keep feeling lately that there's a solution to this situation I'm in, that somehow I can rewind time and things will be just fine again, or that somehow I'm stuck in a horrific dream and can't quite wake up from it, or sometimes I feel like I missing that one thing I can do to FIX this problem.
We didn't have any problems, well, at least not when he slipped away. I'm rather fortunate that things are where they are. He was preparing for THIS and didn't realize it and neither did I, until IT happened.
I know that this isn't a fixable problem, at least not in the immediate future. I'm adjusting to life as a sole parent on Earth and trying to do what a team of two did together, doing it solo now. I'm finding a groove slowly, it's not easy, not fun (well maybe once in a while), but there are things that were so much better when he was here.
I've lost pretty much any desire to cook (and I loved to do that before - my poor kids), I've lost any desire to really "clean" anything or declutter or anything like that. I've gained more of a desire to need to be with other people, it's weird I'm a people person, so I'm trying to make sure I'm mom when I need to be, but still trying to create who I am now without the man I've been with for the last 16+ years.
Tears are still coming unannounced. But really the timing is slightly predictable - during the night, on Sundays, when I'm reading things of spiritual natures, or when I just have silence and start to think about what has changed. Trying to keep moving forward, but sometimes I don't know which way is really forward because I feel like I've been spinning out of control for the last 11 weeks almost and even longer if you count the month he was sick before he passed away. I'm trying to find some firm footings somewhere to know where to go and what to do and right now I've got nothing except to find another home.
It will be bitter sweet, no matter when it is but I know that the only good sleep I've had was when we had our furnace go out and we stayed in Santaquin with my father in law at his home. The kids loved that and so did I.
There isn't such thing as normal. I used to think that there was, but really I keep thinking that everyone that I see could be gone later that same day or the next or in a week. Life is seriously precious and really is giving me an indication that it's meant to be lived and not feared, but still there is some anxiety when I think that so and so could be next, or heck even myself. (Of course, I hope not for a very long time).
And that brings me to the phrase "If we endure it well". I've been learning what that really means the last two months and have gathered that it doesn't simply mean to sit around and not do anything but to really ENJOY and be HAPPY while I'm enduring. I equate enduring to living. Granted there is a time for pause while a grieving person is trying to get their feet on solid ground again and head out from the fog that encapsulates it during this time. But when the dust settles and feet are firmly planted once again, it's time to get to work.
Again if I haven't said it already I don't wish this on my worst enemy. Losing someone really brings to light those things that are of worth and worth our time and those things that don't really matter. I'm not really "living" right now I'm kind of just floating along and in a daze at that. That's why I'm writing my thoughts down so that I'll remember them later, when I really need to fall back on it.
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