How do you deal with loss?

[*michaelsean*]

Unless you are talking about the loss of a child, which I don’t know how anyone deals with that, the short term it’s just going to suck, and then it gets easier. My two hardest losses were my friend committing suicide when we were 18 and my brother dying of cancer at 46. The world seems insanely wrong without them, and then it doesn’t. It sounds kind of uncaring, but you get used to it, and it becomes the normal.

My morbidly obese neighbor just died last week at 41. We weren’t best friends, but I did a lot of errands for he and his mom so I saw them a lot, and I go over and see her most days since he died, and it’s really weird. He’s been there for 25 years and now he’s not. Eventually it won’t be weird. It just happens.