guffaw was kind enough to help me express some deep sorrow and loss that I had been facing recently. Thank you kindly Sir for allowing me to process my grief through your artwork.

For me, these past few months have been a roller coaster of emotions. Between ending things with my ex-girlfriend and then getting caught up in the ending of school, I have been trying to process my feelings of letting go and moving on relationally. I thought that I had worked through most of the pain.

But then there are those small reminders of that person that come up. The show that you two would always watch together, craving a certain food that was her favorite, humming along to a song that was from a band she liked, the random smell of her perfume in the air...and a few weeks ago, all of the loss, sorrow, and pain of her absence in my life came crashing back to me.

So, here in this picture is me via my fursona. He has just gotten home from work and has had a long day. A long day after a string of long work days. Just as he turns on the radio to start winding down with a celebratory end of day drink, a song from one of her bands come on...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfdAGkjHGac The words strike home more than they ever did before. The pain and grief of the loss all are there again like the break up was happening now. His drink forgotten as he is lost in the music and pain. Tears fall freely as his composure breaks. His strength gone. All that is left in the moment, is the truth of the words and the pain of her no longer being his...

He is just a man trying to make it in the world, and in this moment the pain is the entirety of that world. It will pass, like the setting sun. Life will move forward and this pain will heal. Tomorrow will come and this will pass. But for now, it hurts...