Please show me the way...

Dear Maks,
I keep hearing them say "he couldn't be revived"...over and over in my head.
I don't remember much about the past 4 months. Everything is hazy.
They said I had to identify your body. I refused. I couldn't see you like that. Lifeless.
You could have been so many things.
You WANTED to be so many things.
I was driving when the call came in and i just sat there, alone, hysterical, shocked. I remember thinking, "oh my god, it finally happened."
4 months later I am still in shock. I haven't accepted the fact that I won't ever see you again...accepting that fact will break me.
Do you remember when I taught you had to drive a stick shift? How we drove around and around the block practicing 1st gear?
I remember those moments so clearly. When it was just you and I...mom and son...smiling...laughing.
What am I suppose to do now?!?!?
Without you, who am i?
Mac I am scared to start a new chapter in my life because you won't be a part of it...how can I live a life that you aren't a part of??? How do I move forward from this?
I'm stuck. I want to freeze time so that it can't continue without you. I want to stop the days from coming so that it won't keep getting longer since I've seen you.
I will never understand how I am suppose to live life without being your mom.
None of this feels real.
I need guidance. I need direction. I need to feel hope.
I see everyone else moving forward in their lives...it makes me angry...jealous...how can the earth keep turning without you?
Please let me know you're with me. Please. Send me signs from the other side...I am begging you for guidance and strength.
You are forever frozen in time. An image in my mind and in my heart. Please help me live through this with the faith and the strength I need to believe I will be with you again.
xoxo, mama


I am fine

Dear Maks,
Something about your death is still unbelievable to me. My emotions come in waves. Are you really gone?
People are concerned for my well being. I tell them I am fine.
People say I'm strong.
They don't know me. Inside I ache.
How am I suppose to make my life into something that I know you won't be a part of? If I stay in this place, in this moment, then I don't get farther away from you. I hate to think that you are forever still. As the world changes you are stuck in time. You will never be anything but 20 years old. People will grow older. Lives will change...new memories will be made and you will be still. Just an image. Moving forward means moving on without you. It's as if I have hit pause on my life. If I "un-pause" myself the story will continue to be written without you and that concept is eating me away inside. I just want to remain still...in this moment...close to you...my beautiful son. I miss you. I'm mad at you. I'm lost without you.
And I don't know how to find my way back...no, I don't want to find my way back...to a life without you.
I love you,
mama