In a little over a month a year will have passed. In many respects it was a normal year, twelve months, three hundred and sixty six days (2008 was a leap year), eight thousand seven hundred and eighty four hours. A normal year with just the right amount of days and hours though for me every day and every hour was twice as long as it should have been. It was twice as long as it should have been because this was the year I lost my son. My son and three of his friends were killed on March 21st 2008 in a horrific car crash.
So how long is a year in which you lose someone you love? I am fifty one years old and all the years that went before this one flashed by in a blur compared to this one.
They tell me that life will return to normal someday and days will return to their normal twenty four hour duration, I hope that day comes soon. I can't help but wonder; how long will the next three hundred and sixty five days last?
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Its hard but fact... Life never stops, for whatever comes in its way..
ReplyDeleteSomeone has truely said..
"In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal" -- Nisami
Mr. Keith,
ReplyDeleteI am glad that you decided to write on this. I didn't know if I was the only one that felt like time was passing by too slowly. The year of firsts has been the hardest year of my life. I don't know if there is a certain time in which the pain stops hurting. Maybe just a time in which you can finally accept it and deal with it. As do you, I too wonder when this time will come. Just know that I daily think of y'all. I love all of you so much.
I miss my Papa Bear more with each day that passes!
-Madison