Reach out and touch someone
I sent a text message to my friend who has lost a lot of her family over the last 18 months – two aunts, a mother and a nephew – and told her I was thinking of my mom and knew she must be too. She wrote back that it’s hard hard hard and sad too.
If you know someone who has lost someone they love, even though Christmas might not be meaningful to you, it is a time that seems to put a lot of pressure on those of us who have recently (and maybe not even so recently) lost someone special – it might be a good time to check in and say, “Hey, I know you’re sad, and I love you.”
What the hell, why not, spread a little cheer – Merry Fucking Christmas – as my friend’s brother is want to say. MFC, indeed.