Changes

Life is full of changes. They can either come slowly or crash into your world with the impact of a runaway rhinoceros. Some changes are happy, such as graduating, or can be heartbreaking, like a death. It is the latter change that my family and I experienced this Christmas season. Grandma passed away on Christmas Eve, after battling Alzheimer's disease for many years, and having suffered infections during the last month. We knew her passing was imminent, but that doesn't soften the edges of sadness as much as I thought it would. The thing about change is that you eventually adjust to it, and this is not the exception. Time slows down for nothing, so we pick ourselves up and keep going. However, that does not mean that we will forget her or the good times we had together. Grandma was too important to us and had too much personality to be forgotten.