Immune to Death Week
April 17, 2009 by Anna Farmery
Filed under Grief
Over the last 14 days I have had 6 phone calls to say friends or extended family members have died. 6! It has got to the point that I daren’t pick the phone up…just in case….
Once thing I realised about human nature is that on the first phone call I was very shocked and on each phone call thereafter the shock lessoned. Now please don’t read that as though I don’t care about the later deaths…that is far from the truth, I feel numb, so numb…..but somehow my heart locked itself away from further shock and pain. Somehow death had …read more
How Pain Affects The Memory
August 30, 2008 by Anna Farmery
Filed under Grief
In response to the poem I wrote called The Visions of Lost Love, Hazel and I were talking about the pictures we have in our mind. In one of the comments I wrote
” I will never give up hoping that one day that picture will change. I know it is the pain that is still holding my attention rather than the love that I know is deep inside”
Pain is such a powerful emotion that I have found it can change the pictures and even the feelings inside your body. However, I think it is important to realise that the pain …read more
