I asked my son (age 9) last night how he was feeling and he said “Pretty normal, I mean, he wasn’t here very often. Will we ever see him again?” I answered that we might never see him again and asked him how he felt about that “That makes me a little sad. I liked going to basketball games and getting basketball stuff”. I told him it makes me sad too. That missing people who were important to you is one of the hardest things about life. He followed up with “But, mostly I feel normal”

I wish I could feel normal.