To grow up with the loss of your mother is a scar that never goes away.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Because nobody goes through life without a scar.
There's nothing that symbolizes loss or grief more than a mother losing a child.
I didn't start grieving for my mother properly until I was maybe 16.
When you lose a parent, you realize how vital they are to the foundation of your life. It's impossible to understand what it means until that curtain is pulled. You're an orphan. But then I think that life is kind of remarkable, and the thing that causes the biggest pain can also bring amazing energy.
I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her.
During my grief, I realised there was nothing I could do for my mother, but I did have a child.
When your mother dies, you're not a little girl any more.
When you have lost people like I lost my birth mom at a young age and you remember the whole process of losing her, you want to grab on to something that makes you whole.
But I still always felt the absence of a mother.
I didn't grow up with my mother, and so losing her for real was like, some sort of latent childhood, some sort of unresolved issue. When she left for real, it was sort of like, I was done.