baggage

7.16.2016

As I have been cleaning and "purging" this summer, I have thought a great deal about the baggage I'm carrying. The challenge, especially for we widows/widowers who miss who we were, is to figure how to pack lightly and hang on to what's most important. But I've been feeling lighter these days as I do that cleaning--it seems to be symbolic in some way, a way to choose carefully and purposefully the pieces of the past I want to keep close and to begin letting go of those that aren't as important. I've been allowing myself to start thinking more about who and what I could be, and to realize that I actually do WANT to be something (other than a widow)!

#grief #baggage #lettinggo