Joel S Levinson

Miss You Joel S Levinson

One man's journey for understanding after the untimely passing of his mom from breast cancer. ---There is no doubt that life is short. The people that you expect to be there your entire life, especially the ones that raise you from an infant to an adult should always be around. They should have the opportunity to have the retirement life they dreamed of and to experience their grandchildren as adults. They should be having fun! For mom, it wasn't to be. Cancer stole her away from her family at the young age of 66. The pain and anguish of losing my only parent was almost unbearable. I needed to come to grips with not having her beautiful smile or contagious laugh nearby. I couldn't fulfill my childhood promise to "always take care of her." I was unable just to call her. It took me two years of searching on how to say goodbye. And in that same time, I discovered seven special gifts that mom left me that allows me to keep her spirit alive in others. Mom, I will always miss you, but now I understand that you are never really gone.