Hello,
How are you today? The end of the week is nigh. It’s so close I can smell it!
Today’s story is about the complexities of choosing the right sympathy card when a friend loses a loved one. What do you do when no card feels right?
I hope you enjoy this one.
Happy reading,
Jordan x
The greeting cards had begun to look the same when I looked over them for the fourth time. Scouring the racks for a card that would encapsulate it all I found that after a while the demure shades of pastels blended into one. As did the silver tones of swooping letters and illustrated birds and flowers. The cards repeated phrases like With Deepest Sympathy, With love at this time, Thinking Of You… This Too Shall Pass, which when read one too many times lost all meaning. It is easy to give a card to a friend in mourning when words cannot reach them or when you do not know what to say beyond, “I’m sorry.” when there is nothing to be sorry for. After all, you were not the one responsible for their loss and if you were then, well, you probably shouldn’t be speaking to them at all, not yet, anyway.
My best friend lost her dad.
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