Thank you Samadhi
Hey baby.. since that last letter, only 10 days ago, things have started to go so much better for me! I don't quite know how it happened.. I still miss you just as much and it still hurts horribly, and sometimes I am still very scared and lonely, but somehow.. something has shifted in my head. You'd be so proud of me! I have been getting out and about, seeing friends, started that Buddhism course, arranging returning to work - I start back on 1st Feb and I feel like I can do it! A month ago I couldn't even leave my bedroom, it's pretty surreal..
Nothing has really changed about how I feel about your death, it's more like.. I have learnt to live alongside my grief, rather than my grief overwhelming everything. I have learnt that I can move forwards, and it doesn't mean leaving you behind, and that possibly I am actually going to be okay. Which is such progress, I feel like I need to pinch myself.. It feels like it's a magic trick, a balancing act, and I am scared I will slip and lose the knack.. but even if I do, I will do everything I can to get it back, because I know how proud you would be and I know it is what I need to be doing
Thank you so much for everything. Your life changed me for the better, so much.. and now your death, despite being the most horrific, traumatic, shocking and just
inconceivable thing I have ever been through or ever imagined I would have to go through.. that has changed me too. And surprisingly, after months of feeling empty and forever broken, it has changed me for the better.. Someone much wiser than me told me it would once the intensity subsided, but I didn't believe him at the time. I had to learn it for myself. Life is so much more beautiful even though now I know how dark and chaotic and unfair it can be (and that the concept of fairness doesn't even come into it..) Everything has a bittersweet quality to it and everything I do from now on, I do with a far greater awareness.. it is hard to explain. You opened my eyes, baby, and you changed my whole world. Thank you.
I would still give anything to see you walk in the door right now, but I can't have that, I finally understand that now.. I will never be comfortable with this but I don't want to be, and sometimes the shock and horror of it still catches me unawares and takes my breath away, but I think it always will.. and I wouldn't have it any other way. I still have a long way to go but I wanted you to know I am doing better and how incredibly grateful I am to have had the honour of knowing you as well as I did. Never forget you baby, ever. And thank you. And I love you.
ps I'm going out raving to some gabba tonight! I will think of you by the speaker stack..
pps sorry that was tl;dr darlin', hehe, I can imagine you laughing at me.. but I needed to tell you that I am okay
