Describe a phase in life that was difficult to say goodbye to.

When I lost my sister in 2010 to a horrific car accident, I never thought I’d enjoy life again. My grief spanned years, and still has its moments in my day to day life. In my mind, there is nothing harder to let go of than your grief.

Remembering that there is a world that still needs to be lived, people to care for, others to think of, when all you want to do is curl up and rot until it is your time to die. It is not only difficult, but necessary.

My mom always quoted the saying, “Life goes on, though we know not why,” and I feel that deep in my soul. It broke me to know that it was okay to let go of my pain, and start living again. For so many years it didn’t seem possible, but here I am, still alive, still healthy, no rhyme or reason to it.

I have to hope that there is a time that I will see my sister again. That my grief is only temporary, and we will be reunited to share all the missed moments in our lives. We were supposed to grow old together and sit in our rockers, on the front porch, giggling like school girls over our husbands.

Unfortunately life took a turn, that neither of us expected and that dream died with it, but what I will do is learn to live again. Let go of my grief, live this life for both of us, so that one day in the future I will have so many stories to share with my sister.

RIP Rebecca Hunt, gone far too soon. Your family loves and misses you.