Confused Emotions

Have you ever experienced that moment when the phone rings and before you even see who it is calling you or have the chance to answer the phone; you know it is bad news? I have, too many times this year than I would like.

I just received a call letting me know that my last living grandparent has passed away. A stroke they said. Death seems to be surrounding my family of late and I just want it to stop. No more please! My husband and I have lost 3 family members already this year and it’s only August. First there was my grandad B (dads’ dad) in January only a few days after my birthday, next was my husbands’ grandad in March and now my other grandad K (mums’ dad). I cannot lose anyone else – I am too close to the rest. The rest of us are very tight knit!

I am not sure how I am supposed to feel about my grandad Ks death. Am I confused, should I feel more sad or upset?  I think I may even have a sense of guilt. I haven’t seen grandad K since I was little and as my mum wasn’t close with him we weren’t either. This is where the guilt comes in, should I have made more of an effort to see him? Should he have found me? I’m 25 and I haven’t seen him since I was about 6-ish (I think).

But with this guilt also comes the memory of this man who was not the most moral and stable person and so I question myself as to whether I should be feeling guilty. He was unpredictable and drank (a lot) but as I said I hadn’t seen him in so many years he could have turned his life around and I had no idea.

My emotions are torn and I don’t know how to feel. I know it’s too late to do anything differently and that I shouldn’t be thinking about what ifs but it’s is just one of those things, you can’t help but do it. How can one simply not question and take what happened with a grain of salt?        

RIP – My dear grandad W. King.

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