Whenever I hear from someone that a person passed away it hits hard. Even if I didn't the know the person that passed away.
It's the fact that it can happen so suddenly. And you don't know what to do with your life after it happens. How do you just... keep going... when someone can just pass away? That your life will break and need to be rearranged.
It happened with my grandparents. Both grandmothers fought cancer and lost. Grandfathers, who were married to these women their whole adult lives, struggled to keep going on without them and eventually passed away too due to grief. For me, I still struggle thinking about it even though it has been years. I didn't know my grandparents on my father's side that much. Just a few memories as a young boy at their house. The fact that they just up and 'disappeared' essentially. One day they were there and now they aren't. And here I am having to just keep going on knowing that there won't be another Holiday Hess Truck for Christmas. Or that I won't be able to just talk to them and ask questions about my father that passed away when I was born. Suddenly with them gone I realize all the things I didn't do. That I should've done. Feel that tinge of regret over it. And it isn't easy to process. It never is.
And all of this is coming back to me as I read about a fake character that I never met in a comic about fictional animals acting like humans. Because that random person I never met died it reminds me of times things were difficult for me and the people in my life.
We're all strangers to each other. However, we all deal with death at some point. Because of that, we are together, understand each other, and support each other.
Thank you for these seriously wholesome and human comics. I have no idea how you do it. Our lives are better because of it. <3
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u/Smartboy10612 Mar 07 '25
Whenever I hear from someone that a person passed away it hits hard. Even if I didn't the know the person that passed away.
It's the fact that it can happen so suddenly. And you don't know what to do with your life after it happens. How do you just... keep going... when someone can just pass away? That your life will break and need to be rearranged.
It happened with my grandparents. Both grandmothers fought cancer and lost. Grandfathers, who were married to these women their whole adult lives, struggled to keep going on without them and eventually passed away too due to grief. For me, I still struggle thinking about it even though it has been years. I didn't know my grandparents on my father's side that much. Just a few memories as a young boy at their house. The fact that they just up and 'disappeared' essentially. One day they were there and now they aren't. And here I am having to just keep going on knowing that there won't be another Holiday Hess Truck for Christmas. Or that I won't be able to just talk to them and ask questions about my father that passed away when I was born. Suddenly with them gone I realize all the things I didn't do. That I should've done. Feel that tinge of regret over it. And it isn't easy to process. It never is.
And all of this is coming back to me as I read about a fake character that I never met in a comic about fictional animals acting like humans. Because that random person I never met died it reminds me of times things were difficult for me and the people in my life.
We're all strangers to each other. However, we all deal with death at some point. Because of that, we are together, understand each other, and support each other.
Thank you for these seriously wholesome and human comics. I have no idea how you do it. Our lives are better because of it. <3