How does one move on? When there is something in your life for so long no matter how small a thing it maybe, it affects you. When it is gone, you notice its absence. A smile no longer there, a feeling that can now only be remembered. A closing to a place you once went. What if you don't want that door to close and think it too cold to open a window? It's gone and won't come back. That door has been slammed close no matter how much you try to pull it back open. You cry and try to say goodbye but feel as if you are betraying the memory of that which you have lost. You fear of losing what little you have left as time continues against your will. You can fight and grieve but with little solace. A happy ending it may be or a tragic one. Either way simply saying goodbye can be the hardest thing you ever have to do. Yet how much worse is it if you never get the chance? Smile and have joy for those happy moments they will now have though you may not be a part of them. Where is such joy found? Can it be sustained? Saying what you feel only gets you as far as words. One is never the same the moment after this one. We are constantly changing no matter how much we may not want to, or conversely, how much we wish for it to pass faster. Our losses make us stronger in a way that our joys do not, and vice versa. We are strengthened by both, simply in different ways. If we linger on that which will destroy us then there is nothing to be reaped from our suffering. We have to let go. Though it may feel like a betrayal of trust and love, it is not. Those things we have lost are now gone and for most cannot be retrieved again. Dwelling on that which is no more will not help nor offer any solace. Look to that which you still have for new joys and sorrows. Life, while it is ever changing, offers us new things each day to move us along and keep us going.
Live, for that which loves us would never wish death or destruction upon us. Share the joys and sorrows of others and bring a new purpose to your life.
Live.