Debbie Reynolds (center) with her daughter Carrie Fisher (right) and her granddaughter Billie Lourd (left)
  | 2016 has been a trying year. In my personal life, 2016 has been relatively uneventful, you might go as far as to say it's been a personal triumph. The public sphere has not been so yielding. 2016 has relentlessly attacked and denegrated everything important and wonderful that has come to life. So many things have been taken from us and the unfilled void is harsh. We lost our space mom this week and I've been emotionally devastated. It's not fair. No one lives forever, but some people should. I loved Carrie Fisher as an actress and a writer, but also as an advocate for women and mental health. She was truly amazing and I want to stop crying, but I'm heartbroken. Films and television have allowed us to have surrogate parents and Carrie Fisher was a surrogate mother for me. She was always there when I needed her. |
I had a post written for today that was light and frothy, a standard I try to maintain on this forum, but when Debbie Reynolds similarly passed away, I couldn't post it. I grew up watching her movies, her films, and she occupied a spot in my heart that can't be replaced.
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We should have never lost our space mom and it's not right that we had to lose both legends in the same year. 2016 has taken so much from us. I lost part of myself today. I know it will eventually be alright, but I can't help it. I'm devastated. I am completely torn apart. We lost people we should have never lost, people who just by existing were a bright a spot in this world, and I'm not sure how we're going to cope in 2017 without them. They will forever be in my, and I hope many others hearts.
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