Anniversary
It is the anniversary of my father's death. His life ceased around 6am on January 24, 2002.
Has it really been 6 years?
I suppose it gets a little less raw every day of every year. I suppose. But some days I'm not sure.
Celebrating New Year's is always bittersweet for me. It's a chance to being anew - resolutions, diets, etc. - but it also brings me a day closer to tearing open that wound once again. January may be about beginnings for some people. But to me, January is about endings.
(In a sick twist of fate, another relative was killed in a freak car accident a year to the day that my dad died).
Has it really been 6 years?
I suppose it gets a little less raw every day of every year. I suppose. But some days I'm not sure.
Celebrating New Year's is always bittersweet for me. It's a chance to being anew - resolutions, diets, etc. - but it also brings me a day closer to tearing open that wound once again. January may be about beginnings for some people. But to me, January is about endings.
(In a sick twist of fate, another relative was killed in a freak car accident a year to the day that my dad died).
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posted by Lyss at
12:00 AM
6 Comments:
My dead dad day was Tuesday. No fun.
My Dad died on - are you ready? - Fathers Day. No joke.
God bless.
Yeah, my dad died the day I graduated from grad school. My mother & sister didn't want to tell me he was so sick because I "had so much going on." So they told me the night before and I got a flight out at 4:30 the next morning (had to fly from east coast to west) and he died while I was hanging in the sky. So I missed both saying good-bye and my graduation.
My sick twist of fate is that I lost two of the three other male figures in my life on my high school grad day, and my undergrad college grad day. No shit.
My thoughts with us all & with everyone who's lost or is loosing a great dad.
Yeah, or even a not-so-great Dad.
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"My thoughts with us all & with everyone who's lost or is loosing a great dad."
My dad died on Jan. 24 too! 2005, but still...
Also, he died on the exact same day and date as his mother, 29 years later...weird.
Every year in January, I think I have my shit together, and then lo and behold, DDD comes around, just ruining the whole month, and causes me to go ballistic...like clockwork.
My Dad died 8 years ago today. I was a 10 year old kid. Messed me right up. He had chest pains at work, wich was of course, right around the corner LITERALY from the hospital....He died in his car, at the stop lights at the corner. Cardiac arrest.
Love you dad, Still miss you every day <3
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