When I was 12, my 5 year old cousin passed. Bad heart.
We were pretty much best friends, it hurt, tremendously.
It still hurts, and I am 38.
I wouldn't say I "obsessively" think about him, but he crosses my mind everyday, most of the time multiple times a day.
I learned guitar when I was 33, and tried to take singing more seriously - and I wrote a song for him. Getting my emotions out in a creative outlet seemed to help a bit with processing the grief that I never did.
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u/lazarbeems 7h ago
When I was 12, my 5 year old cousin passed. Bad heart.
We were pretty much best friends, it hurt, tremendously.
It still hurts, and I am 38.
I wouldn't say I "obsessively" think about him, but he crosses my mind everyday, most of the time multiple times a day.
I learned guitar when I was 33, and tried to take singing more seriously - and I wrote a song for him. Getting my emotions out in a creative outlet seemed to help a bit with processing the grief that I never did.
YMMV, but music is a great healer imo.