Today was one of the better days. One of my friends gave me a gentle reminder of where strength comes in our lives. Strong people carry the light internally, and Robin expected me to be strong and live on because it is the right thing to do. Not because I promised her, or anything else. I will survive because it is what I need to do.
So I spent time working through all our picture filed on the computer, and I moved them to my external drive. I spent a lot of time looking through the older files I had already had stored. I found a lot of pictures of old Thanksgivings and Christmases and summer days from when we lived at Fort. Meade.
It's amazing how looking through old pictures, and living in memories for a while will send you back to the moment when they happened. Looking back and seeing Meghan as a child, playing with her mommy.
Seeing Logan as a baby with his mommy. Seeing Morgan from a few years ago.
The memories are what can't be taken. They are part of the light that give me strength.
I sometimes come dangerously close to depression. That comes from letting myself indulge in grief, instead of realizing it, accepting it and moving past. Grief is a natural expression of loss, and we should grieve. It's healthy. What isn't healthy is when we hit the point we can't get past, and it consumes us.
Just like when I almost let my anger consume me, but I moved past it; I won't let my grief consume me. I will move past it. I will be strong for the children because it is the right thing to do. I will miss her, but I will live through this.
Those days at Meade are many of my fondest memories too. Most of my days and many nights were spent with you and Robin and Meg. I still laugh loudly at the conversations we had together. I loved seeing you and Robin the past few summers and it made me happy to see how happy the two of you were together. You are a strong man, Aaron and your children are lucky to have had two parents that could lean on each other and throw the punches but in the end knew that they loved each other unconditionally and refused to let it go. Thank you for sharing yourself with us all.
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