RANDI LYNN SALMON
March 18, 1987 - October 30, 2014
This blog is not only intended to piece together my broken heart, or tell you how to begin to piece together yours.
It is to remember my beautiful friend, Randi Lynn...
I want to share with you her incredible spirit, her contagious laugh, her undoubted courage, and her beautiful and vibrant life.
We all deserve a piece of her in some way, that is truly how wonderful she is.
And with all that being said, I do hope that in some way, me talking about her and about how intensely her loss has affected my life and my being, I will be able to begin the healing process. I never want to forget her; I never want to fill the gap and ache in my heart where she once was; I want to learn to deal with her absence and discover how I can still feel, hear, and see her in a form that isn't physical. I hope that this becomes a space for me to hear how others have dealt with death, loss, sorrow, heartbreak, or a mix of all of those things. One thing I have realized in the short time that Randi has been gone from my everyday life is that I hate that there isn't a "right answer" or a "good way" to deal with loss. There are bad decisions you can make, substances you can depend on and turn to, and influences that will make you feel worse, but there isn't one "right" thing that will make you better. It's a tough pill to swallow knowing that every morning, every afternoon, and every evening, your loss will be apparent, real, and awful, and that with that fact being known, there still isn't the one thing we can do to be okay immediately. Let's learn to live with that. Let's get through this together. Let's be an army of warriors who will wake up and face each day, just like those we lost would want us to.
Cheers to US. Cheers to THEM.
Cheers to US. Cheers to THEM.