I haven't wrote a blog in so long. I been holding feelings back and letting myself bottle everything in. I have been trying to pretend that I am "ok".
Everything is not OK.
After last years Shake It For Kenzie I had a lot of people tell me that I need a break. Take a year off.
I listened to them, I took a year off. Last years Shake It For Kenzie was a hard one I lost money and am still working on paying it back.
I didn't try very hard at this years prom. I have been beaten down and I have let the people that told me I needed a break and couldn't continue to do these fundraisers win. I let them WIN.
I am beaten up and broken down.
I have worked so hard to be positive and to keep things and people that only bring me up and not down around. Some where between last August until today I have let those bad things in....or maybe I just bottled my feelings in for so long.
HOPE. Keep having hope. I have been hearing that for almost 3 years now. So for three years I been working on keeping hope.
After three years I have seen so many cases of people being idiotic and they survive. They get the majority of their lives back.
I feel like a horrible person because most of the time I am jealous. I get angry.
The grieving process is a bitch. I don't seem to be doing that well at it. Who does?
This last month I feel like I am back at day one with trying to process this all.
I miss Kenzie. There are things she was going to do and I was looking forward to her grow up and become an adult. I was so curious as to where she was going to bring her life. I cry for the life lost on a regular basis.
Those questions I have told myself I can not ask because it will kill me on the inside because there are no answers for them, I keep asking them lately.
How did I get back here again?
Three years have past and people around me look at me with a face of really you are still upset about this?
My grandpa is now in the nursing home. It was heart breaking for me at first. My grandpa is my favorite person in the whole world. He has always been MINE. Just being around him I feel loved and like no matter what happens he will always love me. When he got put in the nursing home I started comparing everything to Kenzies old nursing home room. After I left I broke down. All those memories came back. The feeling of being pissed off that Kenzie was in the nursing home as a teenager came rushing back.
Did I mention I feel like I am back at day one of the grieving process?
I miss her more every day. I work every day to be a positive person and not to let me dwell on it. Some days are easier then others and sometimes I am human and I just can't do it. Some days I am so angry and the kicker is I have no one to blame. Because once I try to blame someone or something, I just get more angry.
So taking a break on the fundraisers to raise money and awareness does not seem like such a good idea anymore. Because even though I lost money...I felt like I was giving Kenzie a voice. I felt like we were making a positive experience out of a negative. I need hope that Kenzies story will be heard and she will not be forgotten and that maybe others will not have to go through this. Maybe. That's the hope I have to have. Others may not agree or even support me. But I can not let Kenzies voice or story go unheard. She was to beautiful in every sense to let her fade away.
I love you my cousin.
Since there was not a Shake It For Kenzie 2014 I am setting up a FUNDME page to help hopefully raise some money! Please Share with your friends and lets get Kenzies story heard again even if we don't raise any money hopefully we can get awareness out there again and hopefully others will protect themselves!
http://www.fundme.com/en/projects/5826-Kenzie-Zarn
Katie your so wonderful at expressing your feelings. Feelings that I know I go threw my self with Kinzie and the loss of my Mom last year. There's no one way to grieve and no wrong way or any time limit on doing it. This post brought up many feelings as I read it and as I'm writing this to you. You follow your heart and do what you need to do not what anyone else thinks is right. You are the sweetest, kindest person I know and as I've said many times my family and our family is very lucky to have you in our lives. You're our glue!! I'll always be there to support you and help you with what ever you choose to do, as I know you would be for me...I love and miss Kinzie and I also morn the loss of having our Uncle, Aunt and other Cousin in our lives as much as we used to...amazing how one day, one wrong decision, one second can change so many peoples lives so drastically for the rest of their lives. Our family will never be the same again, but we all are still very lucky to have Kinzie in our lives and to have known the sweet wonderful girl that she is....I love you to the Moon Katie...xoxo
ReplyDeleteTanya when I am not holding my feelings in I find it best to write things down. Sometimes I write things down and never post them (those are those really dark posts that I think would terrify everyone). It helps me get things straightened out in my head to some degree. I think a lot of our family pushes the pain of Kenzie to the side and have yet to realize the lost that they have. I love you very much too!
ReplyDeleteKatie, you are amazing. It is so inspiring to see all the work you do to make meaning out of this tragedy. I know some people would just let it destroy them. It's really incredible all of the work you do out of love for Kenzie. What a bond you two share. Thanks for sharing her story. - Laura Ingalls Connell
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