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Day of remembrance [2021]
4 years ago
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So yeah just gonna throw out a little journal really quickly to talk about today. Instead of having to retype everything I'm just gonna put in what I put in my picture descriptions to begin with to give some back story to this journal.
"I don't know if this is practiced in other countries outside of Sweden or maybe outside of Scandinavia. But here in Sweden we have a day that happens usually the day after Halloween where you go to the graveyard and light candles in remembrance of your loved ones that have passed away. Seeing as none of my relatives are buried where I live we can't leave a candle at their gravestone but instead get to leave a candle at a designated space in the graveyard for people that can't get to their relatives graves, in Swedish its called a "Minneslund" or roughly translated to memory lane in English. This is the first time I've been lighting a candle in remembrance of someone that I can actually vividly remember. For those that don't know my great grandfather passed away on the 28th of december, 4 days after christmas in Sweden. He passed away from a brain bleed. It was definitely a lot harder and more emotional to light candles this year."
Now with that out of the way I'm just gonna say that this is a day that I always appreciate every year because it kinda acts like a reality check for me. Because when I'm at the graveyard lighting these candles with my family I do always feel really sad for obvious reasons. And it just makes me think of the fact that If I had ever gone trough with ending my life any of the times I was close to doing it my family would have to be at the graveyard lighting a candle without me in remembrance of me. And it just reminds me off the fact that they would miss me ALOT. So yeah its a reality check for me and always makes me remember that my family actually loves me.
Anyway I hope that everyone is having a great weekend.
also if any of you wanna see the pictures I'm talking about from the graveyard they can be found here. It's always very beautiful.
https://www.furaffinity.net/gallery.....oved-ones-2021
"I don't know if this is practiced in other countries outside of Sweden or maybe outside of Scandinavia. But here in Sweden we have a day that happens usually the day after Halloween where you go to the graveyard and light candles in remembrance of your loved ones that have passed away. Seeing as none of my relatives are buried where I live we can't leave a candle at their gravestone but instead get to leave a candle at a designated space in the graveyard for people that can't get to their relatives graves, in Swedish its called a "Minneslund" or roughly translated to memory lane in English. This is the first time I've been lighting a candle in remembrance of someone that I can actually vividly remember. For those that don't know my great grandfather passed away on the 28th of december, 4 days after christmas in Sweden. He passed away from a brain bleed. It was definitely a lot harder and more emotional to light candles this year."
Now with that out of the way I'm just gonna say that this is a day that I always appreciate every year because it kinda acts like a reality check for me. Because when I'm at the graveyard lighting these candles with my family I do always feel really sad for obvious reasons. And it just makes me think of the fact that If I had ever gone trough with ending my life any of the times I was close to doing it my family would have to be at the graveyard lighting a candle without me in remembrance of me. And it just reminds me off the fact that they would miss me ALOT. So yeah its a reality check for me and always makes me remember that my family actually loves me.
Anyway I hope that everyone is having a great weekend.
also if any of you wanna see the pictures I'm talking about from the graveyard they can be found here. It's always very beautiful.
https://www.furaffinity.net/gallery.....oved-ones-2021
