Someone Else's Bucket List

by Amy T. Matthews

Grief was a bitch. It screwed everything up.

But fear didn’t seem to be going anywhere, so she’d just have to carry it along with her.

She couldn’t do anything about it, could she? So, she might as well leave it to the future.

This was how life should feel. Terrifying, magical, wonderful, risky . .

You were an anxious kid, but you still went out there and played.

It had reinforced everything she believed about herself. But now she found out it hadn’t even been true. She’d reinforced everything she believed about herself. All on her own.

“When you lose someone, you lose everything about them,”

Romantic love isn’t the only kind of love worth having.”