When our immediate family members begin to pass away, life changes—permanently.

 When our immediate family members begin to pass away, life changes—permanently.

In youth, we rarely think about death. We’re full of energy, chasing dreams, making memories. The future feels endless.

But as time passes and death begins to touch our own generation, something shifts. The losses feel heavier. More personal.

We expect to say goodbye to grandparents, and even older aunts and uncles. But when it’s our siblings, our cousins—the ones we grew up with—the grief deepens. It’s not just sadness. It’s a reckoning.

You start to wonder: Who’s next? Is it me? or is it that one, or this one and life for us is just never the same. We see it slowly slipping away through our fingers like a twinkling star that is in the sky, but slowly moves farther from our view.

Holy Ghost Prophet