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I lost my mother last year.

Since that point, I've had so many moments where I saw or did something I knew she'd love, and couldn't share it with her; so many questions I wanted to ask her that I know I'll never get an answer to. It's been particularly tough to not be able to share milestones or ask questions about being a mother now that I am one, too.

She wasn't in good health, but her passing was still sudden and unexpected. Things I thought for sure we'd get around to doing someday will never happen.

I'm thinking about her a little extra today.

If you also don't have your mom with you today, my heart goes out to you. If you do, this is just me saying that time is precious, and the people who love us are even more so.

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Riddler 1y ago

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Dr. Bitcoin, MD 1y ago

Ecclesiastes 3:11 NLT

[11] Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God's work from beginning to end.

karo 1y ago

so sorry to hear about your loss 😔 I can't imagine how that feels

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Squeaky Frog 1y ago

Thank you for posting this. I lost my mom in the same way, suddenly and out of the blue. Then I lost my dad a few years later after a year of cancer treatments that ultimately didn't work. There's no good way to experience that kind of loss.

People often say that it gets easier with time, but I don't think that's quite accurate. It doesn't really get easier, you just get better at living with how difficult it is. Mom passed 14 years ago, Dad was ten years ago, and I still have moments where I'll think of something about one of them and feel this overwhelming sorrow at the loss. But that sharp, hard pain that would accompany such thoughts in the early years has dulled quite a bit.

Happy Mother's Day to you and all the other Nostr moms out there. My wife and I spent the day making cookies for all the moms on our street. Here's yours... 🍪😉