Hi Everyone...It is now official , that scraplift challenges are my favorite kind of challenges...Even if I am not able to complete a lot of challenges each month...If I can choose only one , it will most likely be , the Scraplift Challenge..I looked through my gallery and went farther back , to choose a layout to scraplift...I chose a layout that was an Inspiration Challenge from 2021...This layout is a full page layout ,filled up with a lot of serious emotions and word art too...The scraplifted finished layout, also filled up the page with lots of word art and once again filled up with many serious emotions...
* Personal feelings about grief below. If you want to stop reading here...*
*Referring to my continuing feelings about grief...the pieces that are left and those pieces that will always remain...and those pieces that might remain hidden. so one can try to accept the loss and try to make some kind of peace with it..and for me, knowing that my sweet love, will always remain with me, eventhough it may seem "fragmented" in some ways...And still,those "fragments" remain to become a part of my heart and soul , and also part of my life, moving forward, that have now become parts of me...Before my sweet Raymond passed away, I did not understand what grief was about...but I naively thought I did, having survived yet another crippling grief journey, when my Mom died...My Beautiful! Mom, was also my best friend and we did so much together...I thought | knew what hard grief was,after 2 years of living in my grief related to the loss of my Mom...I was told at a young age, that one must just "grow up" and "get over it" and just forget and move on...That is one of the many false stereotypes about grief,that unfortunately,some of us have heard about and been told to do in our lives when grief hits our lives...That was part of my initial confusion about grief,when Ray died,I was trying so hard to forget him and move on...but I just couldn't do it...It was like my own form of torture, I never wanted to forget him but wanted to remember him and celebrate the wonderful! person he was and celebrate our 28 years of life together...I feel that this misconception about grief , only added to my suffering, but I didn't understand initially...I said this can't be the right way,there has to be another way...Until I finally reached out and asked for help...Then & only then, was I ever to fully start to deal with all of those strong negative feelings about the losses that I suffered...with my Mom and with Ray...Grief for me, is something that I have learned to carry with me, like the memories about those I have loved and lost...they will always be alive in those precious memories and will remain , forever, in my heart and mind...
*My layout : that I Scraplifted is called : Pivot : Please : Link below if you want to take a look :
https://the-lilypad.com/forum/threads/march-scraplift-challenge.99618/post-1702242
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