Paris is Always a Good Idea

by Jenn McKinlay

Paris was always a good idea!

never allowed myself to whine over minor misfortunes, because the truth of it was “Why Not Me?” Bad things happened to everyone. Full stop. The only grace to be found was in how you handled it.

Instead, he looked at us and said, “If you can, always be yourself, unless you can be Batman, then always be Batman.”

“Because I fell in love with you on the other side of your greatest loss, your deepest grief,” he said. “I fell for the strong, determined, driven woman who you’ll always be, and I love you exactly as you are.”

The truth is you’ve been hanging on to your grief as if it’s the last part of your mother that you can hold on to, and you can’t move forward, because you’re afraid if you let it go, you’ll lose her forever.”