Death is a Tragedy that Keeps Us Going: How it feels to experience loss for the first time

You're reading Death is a Tragedy that Keeps Us Going: How it feels to experience loss for the first time, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles. “Don’t be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don’t have to live forever; you just have to live.” –Natalie Babbitt. Summer 2018 was supposed to be thrilling. Summer 2018 was supposed to be the summer of freedom. But I was wrong. I had recently graduated college and was excited to move back home to begin my next chapter. I was finally free, free from school. No more homework, no more stress, time to enter the real world and have some time to enjoy myself. Early June, my friends went to the beach. All but one returned home. My friend was missing. 24 hours later, they found him at the bottom of a canal, dead. That phone call I got and those words I heard will forever echo in my mind. “He’s dead, he’s gone, he’s dead.” Those words couldn’t settle in my brain. My stomach was uneasy; my anxiety was high. I just didn’t understand. How can someone just be gone like that? How can someone so young just vanish? I felt like he was just on a long vacation, that one day he would return. But the reality of it is, he wasn’t, he was gone. He was my best friend. And I had never lost someone close to me before. I thought I would feel it. I thought I would feel the physical sense of someone bein...
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