Mending Relationships
Her letter wasn’t only good enough to enable him to reconnect with her memory; it also instigated the rehabilitation of relationships he had estranged, partly on account of his grief. In the period after her death, he had retreated from friends and family, dreading their sympathy or so-called helpful advice.
But as he thought about her words, he realized that isolation was not what she would want. Gradually he came to seek the people whom he had shared his life with. He began conversations with all of those old friends that filled his time with laughter, memories, and mutual grieving that helped him to feel less alone.
His best rebonding was to the best friend. Here, they would share memorable experiences concerning her, referring to those quirky gestures and kind actions that made her special. By talking to him, he could feel her anew, as though she was living on in those memories left by all her loved ones.
