Compared (The Sweet Rom"Com", #1)

by Kortney Keisel

That’s the life I chose, and it seems completely unfair that it was taken from me.

It’s hard. No matter what I do, I feel like I’m doing it wrong.

It’s times like these that I wish I had someone else in my life, someone who could help me navigate the hard times. Parenting is a hard job to do on your own.

But each night when my head hits my pillow, it’s Meg that’s on my mind. I want to get to know her just because. Thinking about Meg gets me giddy. It makes me look forward to the future.

We’re all dealing with grief and struggling in our own way.

“The ache is always there. But the only reason it gets easier is because you’ve learned to live with it.”

I’m not the same guy I was before Kristen died. I’ve changed. In a good way—in a way that I hope Kristen would be proud of. I’ve lost my favorite person in the entire world, dealt with the heartache that comes with that, and built myself back up again. And Meg fits together with this new version of me.

“Is a person really ever done grieving?”

There’s no way around it. The first everything is tough.