Essay On Loss In My Life

Throughout my life, (like most people), I have experienced many losses. From death, to childhood losses, and other symbolic losses there are many things that have taken place in my life that I consider to be a loss.To begin, I would say that I have experienced more symbolic losses than losses through death in my own family and have been more deeply affected by my symbolic losses than the losses that I have experienced through death. The earliest loss that I experienced was a symbolic loss and it had to do with my little brother being born, so it was basically a loss of attention. This, of course, is one of the more typical losses among children and at the time, I was about 5 years old. As a child, it was kind of frustrating for me to deal with the loss, and it happened so quick that I was not able to grasp it. While my mother was carrying my brother it was exciting and I was really anticipating having a little brother because everyone around me would tell me that I was going to be a big sister, but as soon as he was born, I began to see the change in my parent’s, as well as everyone else’s (cousins,uncles,aunts etc.) attitudes and behaviors toward me compared to him.
Aside from the changes in attitude from my family members, the changes in attitude that had an …show more content…
The interesting thing about this was that she passed away exactly 3 days after my little brother was born so the exact date was August 13th, 2001. Again, I was 5 years old at the time and I don’t remember much as far as actually getting the news that she died, but what I do vividly remember was a little bit of the viewing and most of the funeral. The one thing that I can recall about the viewing was that it was hectic with my one of my aunts and my grandfather making the most noise. The funeral on the other hand was when the reality of it all sort of hit