Onyi baby

An Igbo woman in finance. 🤍

Saw this tweet and tbh, the thing about death is that you can never truly understand the pain, the constant reminders, and the feeling of missing someone until you’ve lost a loved one yourself. Imagination doesn’t cut it. Sometimes, you see people acting a certain way and you can’t understand why. Other times, you watch them become quiet, distant or even aggressive. Death changes you. It takes a part of your soul, and slowly, you try to find your way back to yourself. You’re stuck between wanting to remember and wanting to forget because remembering hurts. You want to move on, but some part of you is still trying to understand how life can continue when someone so important is no longer here. Some days you’re happy, other days the pain hits all over again. But every day, you have to show up, even when you’re barely holding yourself together, especially for the people who look up to you. It is well.