A Bad Day

Assignment: Write about a bad day you’ve had and how you overcame it

I don’t have many bad days so it was kind of hard to think of what to write about. I am typically a positive person, though sometimes I have my moments. I know that I’ve had some bad days in the recent past, but There’s not much I can write about those. I was in a bad mood for some reason, I took a nap or something, and it was all better. After quite a bit of thinking, I finally came up with something.

This essay is going to get kind of dark pretty quick, but the bad day that I chose to write about is when my Great-Grandpa passed away.

He died over two years ago in January of 2019. He was 98. I was really close to him, and his death was really hard on me. I’m not going to talk about how he died because this essay is about how I overcame a bad day, not about how he died.

Like I said in the above paragraph, we were very close and I was of course very sad when I found out. I remember that my mom told me in the car after she picked me up from school. (I was in public school at the time) Even though I was devastated when I found out, I didn’t cry right then. I think it was because of the shock about what she had just told me. We got home and I went to my room before I started crying.

Thursday, January 17, 2019 was probably the worst day that I’ve ever had. I won’t tell you any more about the bad part, and now I will tell you how I overcame my bad day.

This isn’t just like a normal bad day, so it took me a little while to heal from it. The best thing for me was talking to my grandma about it. He was her dad, so she took his death really hard too. She was the person I talked to the most about how I was feeling and it helped me a lot.

I don’t want to sound too Christian-y, because I know that I talk about my religion in a lot of my posts, but talking to God about it really helped me to heal. My relationship with God/Jesus really grew during the time I was grieving, and I am thankful for that.

It took me about a year to really overcome his passing, but I wouldn’t say that I ever “got over it”, even to this day. If you are going through a hard time like this, I understand what you might be feeling. My advice to you would be to find someone you really trust and tell them your feelings even if you’re not a person who really ever opens up.

I know this post was a sad one, but I hope that you enjoyed it anyways. Thank you for reading and have a wonderful day/night!