Comments on: growing up. http://blog.thepajamasquid.com/2009/09/14/growing-up/ reading this is entirely up to you. Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:03:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Tiffany http://blog.thepajamasquid.com/2009/09/14/growing-up/comment-page-1/#comment-1099 Tiffany Fri, 09 Apr 2010 22:33:45 +0000 http://blog.thepajamasquid.com/?p=1209#comment-1099 Jeni - I so appreciate your response! Loss comes in so many forms and it is amazing that once it has touched you how many people (often close to you) don't seem to know what to say to you. It can feel pretty lonely. That is what is truly amazing about blogging, you are actually able to find people that can relate, that you can connect with and it is a wonderful feeling of hope, strength and sometimes it really just puts it all into perspective. If only for a day. Reading all of your comments were so helpful to me, and reminded me again of what is truly important. Jeni – I so appreciate your response! Loss comes in so many forms and it is amazing that once it has touched you how many people (often close to you) don’t seem to know what to say to you. It can feel pretty lonely. That is what is truly amazing about blogging, you are actually able to find people that can relate, that you can connect with and it is a wonderful feeling of hope, strength and sometimes it really just puts it all into perspective. If only for a day. Reading all of your comments were so helpful to me, and reminded me again of what is truly important.

]]> By: Jeni http://blog.thepajamasquid.com/2009/09/14/growing-up/comment-page-1/#comment-1096 Jeni Fri, 09 Apr 2010 01:06:08 +0000 http://blog.thepajamasquid.com/?p=1209#comment-1096 That was the most beautiful thing I've read lately. It was just what I needed to hear today. I've been away from the blogging for a while and really miss it. I love how you can skip through blogs and find someone who has the same passions you do, or something that speaks so directly to you. I'm sure we are at different points in our journey of life, but at this moment I feel like perhaps your written words have reached me more than anyone who personally knows what I'm going through. Thank you for writing what you did. And also the responses were lovely- accepting life without anger takes a lot of grappling with grace. That was the most beautiful thing I’ve read lately. It was just what I needed to hear today. I’ve been away from the blogging for a while and really miss it. I love how you can skip through blogs and find someone who has the same passions you do, or something that speaks so directly to you. I’m sure we are at different points in our journey of life, but at this moment I feel like perhaps your written words have reached me more than anyone who personally knows what I’m going through. Thank you for writing what you did. And also the responses were lovely- accepting life without anger takes a lot of grappling with grace.

]]> By: Tiffany http://blog.thepajamasquid.com/2009/09/14/growing-up/comment-page-1/#comment-1095 Tiffany Thu, 08 Apr 2010 19:23:06 +0000 http://blog.thepajamasquid.com/?p=1209#comment-1095 Eve - Thank you so much for your response, I so appreciate it! And you are so right about not letting loss grow into anger inside you because so often that can be the case. Sonya - I read what you wrote about you and your husband today on your blog this morning, and I felt so drawn to you and that is why I followed you on Twitter - so to receive your response here was such a surprise but a welcome one. I am glad you are mourning, today is surely a day to do so. I once started sobbing in the middle of trying to ask my employer for the rest of the day off, I was so upset about the loss of my cousin - even though it had been years ago. It just hit me - it does that. My boss was so thrown off that he immediately let me leave. Imagine what I must have looked like, so don't you worry a minute about walking around campus with tears :) Thank you for writing and I will be thinking of you today - I know that sounds odd since I don't know you, but I'll be doing it just the same. Eve – Thank you so much for your response, I so appreciate it! And you are so right about not letting loss grow into anger inside you because so often that can be the case.

Sonya – I read what you wrote about you and your husband today on your blog this morning, and I felt so drawn to you and that is why I followed you on Twitter – so to receive your response here was such a surprise but a welcome one. I am glad you are mourning, today is surely a day to do so.

I once started sobbing in the middle of trying to ask my employer for the rest of the day off, I was so upset about the loss of my cousin – even though it had been years ago. It just hit me – it does that. My boss was so thrown off that he immediately let me leave. Imagine what I must have looked like, so don’t you worry a minute about walking around campus with tears :)

Thank you for writing and I will be thinking of you today – I know that sounds odd since I don’t know you, but I’ll be doing it just the same.

]]> By: sonya audrey http://blog.thepajamasquid.com/2009/09/14/growing-up/comment-page-1/#comment-1094 sonya audrey Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:53:05 +0000 http://blog.thepajamasquid.com/?p=1209#comment-1094 Aw, jeez. You done made me cry and I have to leave for class about five minutes ago. :) You see, today is supposed to be my fifth wedding anniversary, but about a month ago, my husband (can I still call him that? I still don't know what to call him anymore.) and I decided to call it quits. Not an easy decision, not an overlooked one, but just the right one for us. Regardless at how much I know this is for the best, there's just something about THIS day that I can't help but mourn. I probably look like such a chump walking around campus with tears welled up in my eyes for no apparent reason, but this post right here just meant so much to me. So thank you, thank you. And also thank you for following me on twitter today because otherwise I might not have found this post on the day that I needed it most. Really, truly. Wiping my eyes, and off I go. Aw, jeez. You done made me cry and I have to leave for class about five minutes ago. :)

You see, today is supposed to be my fifth wedding anniversary, but about a month ago, my husband (can I still call him that? I still don’t know what to call him anymore.) and I decided to call it quits. Not an easy decision, not an overlooked one, but just the right one for us. Regardless at how much I know this is for the best, there’s just something about THIS day that I can’t help but mourn. I probably look like such a chump walking around campus with tears welled up in my eyes for no apparent reason, but this post right here just meant so much to me. So thank you, thank you. And also thank you for following me on twitter today because otherwise I might not have found this post on the day that I needed it most. Really, truly.

Wiping my eyes, and off I go.

]]> By: Eve Gerber http://blog.thepajamasquid.com/2009/09/14/growing-up/comment-page-1/#comment-763 Eve Gerber Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:26:06 +0000 http://blog.thepajamasquid.com/?p=1209#comment-763 It's beautifully written and makes you contemplate about things you usually push to the back of your mind. To me growing up means learning that life is not as easy as you've always thought it should be or as it was pictured to you. It's learning that no happily-ever-after is possible without hard work, numerous disappointments and learning to compromise. And most importantly, growing up means learning to accept life without getting angry at it for losses we incur and pain they bring along. It’s beautifully written and makes you contemplate about things you usually push to the back of your mind. To me growing up means learning that life is not as easy as you’ve always thought it should be or as it was pictured to you. It’s learning that no happily-ever-after is possible without hard work, numerous disappointments and learning to compromise. And most importantly, growing up means learning to accept life without getting angry at it for losses we incur and pain they bring along.

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