Thread by @khs_singh

Today is the 10th death anniversary of my dear brother Jaspal Bhatti .( 1/n)

Remembering A loving brother and a meaningful satirist.

#jaspalbhatti #phaji

The “experts” say that grief comes in five stages: denial and isolation, anger, bargaining, depression, and finally acceptance, but they’re wrong.( 2/n) #jaspalbhatti #phaji

Grief is not so tidy and classified as that. It isn’t a thing you can close up in neat little boxes and hang up on the wall for the world to point up and say, “yeah, there’s grief, I get it, now you can put it away—clean and sanitized.” (3/n) #jaspalbhatti #10years #phaji

Pouring out a drop of what my heart feels ,I’m sharing my journey of 10 years of grieving for my brother - the loss of a sibling .
Sibling relationships obviously vary in their degrees of closeness, love, and amicability. (4/n) #jaspalbhatti #10years #phaji

Some siblings may be thick as thieves, others wonder whether they’re even really related.  Regardless, siblings are our ties to family bonds.  They have known us the longest. They understand our history and are the people with whom we have the longest running jokes.(5/n) #phaji

They are the most judgmental people we know.  They are the most accepting and loving people we know.  Siblings can never be replaced and when they are gone we miss the hell out of them. (6/n) #jaspalbhatti #phaji #10years

Today ,a decade has passed and that pain is still there lingering, staining everything I experience. The same way when a bad wound heals the nerves still remember the pain. There’s an ache there.(7/n) #jaspalbhatti #10years #phaji

It’s constant at first, hard to ignore, and then intermittent, brought back by triggers, and it never really goes away. It’s a scar on reality.
Death of a sibling (at any age)is really stinking hard.
They say that love never dies, and so,perhaps, neither do the loved.(8/n) #phaji

Special thanks to my husband Hartek and my children Simar & Harkirat for standing in most difficult times in these 10 years.
I’m indebted. (9/n) #jaspalbhatti #phaji #10years

Take away in these 10years
Detangle relationships with siblings
& dear ones to love them unconditionally.
Family is your only strength .

Had the most amazing bond with Jaspal phaji so many memories even after 10 years the void can never be filled. Yours Simi.

#jaspalbhatti