There is a time when, even if you are 40, 50 or 60 years old, you suddenly feel like a child again.

It's the day you lost your mother or father.

Many think that if a person was elderly or severely sick, pain should be easier to deal with.

But who lived there knows it doesn't work like that.

You may know for months, or even for years, that time will come.

You can prepare documents, organize care, face reality with clarity.

Yet the heart does not follow the same calendar.

Losing a parent doesn't just mean goodbye to a loved one.

It means losing the point of reference that, one way or another, had accompanied your whole life.

For this many people tell to feel "orphans" even in adulthood.

It's not an exaggeration.

It is the awareness that since then the world has changed.

The mourning is not just about what you will no longer have.

It also concerns what continues to live within you.

An expression that you find yourself repeating.

It's a tip that's in difficult times.

A recipe prepared as they did.

A gesture that, without realizing it, you learned by observing them.

With time, many discover that people who have loved do not completely disappear.

They continue to exist in the habits they have transmitted to us, in the values they have taught us and in the way we face life.

Pain doesn't disappear suddenly.

It turns.

And one day you'll be surprised to do something your mother or father would do.

It will no longer be just a memory that hurts.

It'll be part of them walking with you.

If this path should become too heavy to face on its own, ask for the support of a psychologist or another mental health professional is not a sign of weakness.

It is a gesture of care towards oneself.

Because some losses change life.

And they deserve all the time and all the help necessary to be crossed.