So this is me. I’m a college student dealing with the fact that my mother passed away when I was sixteen. She had metastatic melanoma and only suffered for a few months before she passed away. Ever since, my family has been learning how to live out this “new normal” and adjust to life without her. The journey has not always been easy, but I have learned so much and I would not change a thing. The time I had with my mother was precious, and I will always treasure it. But now it is time to think about who I am and who I want to be. I need to let go of the past without forgetting it, and learn to live the life my mother would want me to have.
This blog was initially to display my incredible wisdom of how to deal with loss and how to do all the little things a mother would have done, such as cleaning, cooking, etc. But I’ve now realized that although that is all great, I also need to deal with my grief and loss and work through everything going through my brain. So now, my new and improved goal of the blog is to provide insight into the steps of dealing with grief from the perspective of someone currently going through it. I will provide advice when I can, share thoughts when I have them, and occasionally go on tangents about little things that pop into my head or something I discover that bothers me. My hope is that the readers of my blog will find my words entertaining, interesting, helpful, but most of all, I hope to learn more about myself and my mother. I may be motherless, but there is no doubt in my mind that she has shaped me into the person I am today, and even though she is no longer here, I can still see her in my hopes, dreams, and aspirations.
16 and Motherless 