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I Am Writing Through Grief After Losing My Dog and It Is Difficult
A personal story of writer’s block during a time of transition
Last Thursday, I experienced the death of someone very close to me for the first time in my life. I had to euthanize my best friend, my border collie Lucky.
Lucky was very sick and I made the right choice to let him go, but my heart feels like it has been ripped out and stomped into the ground.
I realize that I am fortunate to be 35 and going through this struggle now instead of when I was younger. I realize he wasn’t a human being.
However, this is my first true heartbreak over death and I am suffering.
I started writing as a career on December 8th, 2019. Since that day, I have had a steady flow of ideas, to the point that I had to make a list on my phone so I wouldn’t forget them all.
The list on my phone is full of ideas I am not passionate about right now. I decided to write about how I’m feeling instead.
It may not be read or recognized by anyone, but maybe it will help me purge this darkness inside of me.
I need to claw my way out of this abyss.
In my first month of freelance writing, I have been published by “The Startup” and had an article written about my…
