IT'S NOT ALL SAD, I PROMISE

For a 17 year old teen, I have been to too many funerals, including two recent ones. I know this is a place of positivity but I feel like this is something I can talk about, and there is a positive point to it, it just might take a while to read your way to it.

Funerals shouldn't be sad, but they always are. Even though they are a celebration dedicated to a loved one and their life, we always end up crying and sobbing all the way through. This is something that can never be avoided. Human's have so many emotions and are capable of feeling many at the same time, and that's why funerals are such a rollercoaster day. We go from bawling our eyes out to laughing and joking, but this isn't a bad thing. We should always remember the happy times spent with the loved and lost.

Sometimes we feel guilty for being happy after losing someone, but we shouldn't. It's okay to let yourself carry on and to feel a little bit better each day. The people we lose wouldn't want us to feel guilty or to carry on being upset.

When we say goodbye to someone at a funeral, it still doesn't really hit you that they have gone. It always takes a while.

I am fortunate to have never had to lose someone that is in my life every day, 24/7. I can only imagine that it may be different but I don't think it ever really hits you when you have lost someone.

The reason I wanted to write this post was because during a service the other day, I felt like I could have done more. It's not that I SHOULD have or that I'm trying to make anyone feel bad, I just felt that in everyday life, I could have done some more little things to make people smile.

So what I want you to do today is smile at a stranger, tell your family you love them when you have the chance and do something nice for your friends. Everyone likes a random act of kindness to make their day brighter.

And don't forget to smile! x

#life #smile #positivity