Family Loss Essay

In my lifetime I have experienced pain in my fourteen year of life, one of the troubled pains I have experienced is the loss of my family and I’s dog. To us he was our best friend, but in the end it turned out that something so horrible at the moment turned out to be a “blessing in disguise.” You may wonder how a death of a pet might bring you a blessing? Well I am here to tell you the story of how it affected my family and I. When I was growing up I had a dog, Buddy, and he was my best friend and also a best friend to my family, and at this time, our family were not as close as I would have liked at this time.We would not bother each other and not spend time together unless it was a special occasion. As days went on, Buddy was getting older

As a family we became closer, and kept Buddy in our hearts as we hoped that he lived a good life with us , even though he was just a dog who slept and ate. He was my best friend and my first pet that I had and grown up with since I was about 4 years old, so it was a time of grieve that I shared with my family. Talking about our memories had brought our family together and we share memories often to remember how being a family brings us closer together with these reflections of our lives with a family member we had lost. This time was hard, but it was also a time of realization of how much you don’t imagine how much you will miss someone and want them in your life until you lose them. If I lost one of my family members today and never told them how much they meant to me, I would be heartbroken, and many people do experience this. For now, I have my family and we are closer than we were before and we realize how much we mean to each other without saying anything, just with being with each other we realize how family is important in this world, and we can say that a four-legged, brown coat, “mutt” named Buddy taught us the meaning of being a