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Good night Ma’am. God be with you in excelsis
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The passing of a loved one can be emotional, upsetting, all consuming. It can feel like, for a short while, that the World itself stops revolving - and that you are suspended in time and space - whilst you contemplate a world and future without that person in it. Sometimes, this might be a frightening prospect, where there is no clear path to tread. And then you realise that although this devastating event has impacted you tremendously, that the World continues to turn, and that life carries on, bustling around you.
Queen Elizabeth II herself said, “Grief is the price we pay for love.”
So it is not therefore surprising that we have seen such an outpouring of public grief, for it comes in many guises, in the form of the laying of flowers and the patient, long waiting to pay respect in person to a Queen and Monarch who touched our lives in an unparalleled reign, the like we may never see again.
Death can be triggering for those who have experienced it close at hand. The loss one can feel even for someone unknown to us personally can not be diminished simply because you had not met them. It is the impact an individual has on the lives of others’ which is a significant factor.
Leon Brown, a former American Major League Baseball player was quoted as saying, “Never underestimate the valuable and important difference you make in every life you touch for the impact you make today has a powerful, rippling effect on every tomorrow.”
Spanning a period of time like no other, Queen Elizabeth in her lifetime witnessed the end of the Second World War, the birth of the BBC and colour television, Kennedy assassinated, space travel, the flight of Concorde, the advent of the internet, the creation of the mobile phone. Many lows and sorrow, many highs and accompanying joy. What a life to have lived alongside such a pace of change, and yet spanning generations, whilst allowing convention to adapt to unrelenting progression.
And all this whilst upholding not only a promise, a pledge, but also a moral code. A decorum and consideration towards others in thought and action.
Love demonstrated. Love upheld. Love taken. Love shared.
The ripple effect of one’s life now demonstrated in grief.
A nod of the head in solemn farewell.
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