My brother, sister, and I were eating breakfast in the hotel lobby. I sat there watching people come and go. Some were families. Some were business people. All had places to go, people to see, and things to do. I thought how odd it was that their lives where going on as usually after every thing that had happened in the last twenty-four hours.
The night before, our mom had died. Our world had changed. Life was going to be different. There would be no more mother's day cards to buy. She would no longer be present at family functions. She would no longer be there to tell my sister what medicine to take when she was feeling sick and didn't have time to go to the doctor. She would no longer be there to answer questions about her past. She was gone. And yet, no one else seemed to notice. Their lives were just as they had been the day before.
That's how it usually happens. Your world gets turned upside down, but the rest of the world just keeps going. It makes a woman want to scream...'Don't you know what happened? Don't you care? How can you go on as if nothing has changed?!' But the world doesn't stop. It just keeps moving along. And somehow, so must we; adjusting to the new normal we've been given....
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