Comments on: To See, To Hear, To Feel http://mysteryoriley.com/2008/01/28/to-see-to-hear-to-feel/ This day is not shot! Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:50:08 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Roads http://mysteryoriley.com/2008/01/28/to-see-to-hear-to-feel/#comment-781 Roads Thu, 31 Jan 2008 03:15:24 +0000 http://mysteryoriley.wordpress.com/?p=214#comment-781 'It's hard to recreate him in my head ...' That's a feeling which everyone fears, I think - that the memory will somehow fade over time, and then one day you simply won't remember what they really looked like or how they sounded. That one day you won't be able to close your eyes and see a perfect image of them any more. That this little tiny thing of them that you now have left won't one day be on hand when you need it. It would be awful if that happened, because in a way it would be like losing them all over again. I don't know if it's any help to know that whilst time deadens many things, this isn't one of them. Yeah, sure, there will be days when you'll try too hard to conjure him up, and it won't easily work, on occasion. But that's not time, or erosion, it's just trying too hard. And these parts of you will simply never fade. They're fixed, and immutable. Thank goodness they are. ‘It’s hard to recreate him in my head …’

That’s a feeling which everyone fears, I think – that the memory will somehow fade over time, and then one day you simply won’t remember what they really looked like or how they sounded.

That one day you won’t be able to close your eyes and see a perfect image of them any more. That this little tiny thing of them that you now have left won’t one day be on hand when you need it.

It would be awful if that happened, because in a way it would be like losing them all over again.

I don’t know if it’s any help to know that whilst time deadens many things, this isn’t one of them. Yeah, sure, there will be days when you’ll try too hard to conjure him up, and it won’t easily work, on occasion. But that’s not time, or erosion, it’s just trying too hard.

And these parts of you will simply never fade. They’re fixed, and immutable. Thank goodness they are.

]]> By: writinggb http://mysteryoriley.com/2008/01/28/to-see-to-hear-to-feel/#comment-780 writinggb Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:28:38 +0000 http://mysteryoriley.wordpress.com/?p=214#comment-780 Yes, sometimes we need to find a way to bring them back, even though it hurts so much to only be able to do so in such truncated ways. Hang in there. Yes, sometimes we need to find a way to bring them back, even though it hurts so much to only be able to do so in such truncated ways.

Hang in there.

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