Lost A Wonderful Horse
My daughter's horse died the night before last. He was her best friend.
For me, yesterday was initially tears and then shock and disbelief that he was gone; it didn't fully sink in until around 2:30 a.m. last night or morning...whatever. I held it together for the kids yesterday, but today is a lot worse. It's harder to hold it together today. I don't know how a horse so full of personality and life could be gone just like that. My daughter had just rode him bareback for the first time two days before he passed away and he was making his silly faces at us afterward. I never knew a horse who made faces but Rex did. For my daughter, she still hasn't stopped crying for the past 24 hours. She holes herself up in her room and cries. I pull her out to eat but she goes right back into her room when she is done. I can't blame her...I'd curl up somewhere too if I could. She wants Rex back. I can't make this better for her. I can be there to hold her and talk to her when she cries but I can't make her grief any less. She has to go through her grieving process. We all do.
Rex gave her confidence. Rex pulled her out of herself when she was going thru some bad times earlier this year and became her best friend. He taught her a lot. Maybe that was why he was with us, though it was for far too short of a time. He should've had another decade with us. I will forever be grateful for what he did for her. I just wish we'd had longer to love him in life.
He wasn't just a pet to us. He is missed.
2 comments:
How sad. I am so so sorry sweetie
(((HUGS)))
Thanks, Lisa. My daughter has been crying for four days now. I can get her to come out of her room to eat and that's it. It's been hard. I was just looking at some video of him and my daughter together and got choked up and had to shut it down. He was that special "pet" (he was more than a pet) that felt like a family member.
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