How does your life change when you lose your best friend?

You might have all the logical and rational reasons in the world to do something, but then your emotions can just sweep in and pull everything to a grinding halt. Having your feelings for work you instead of against you can have a massive effect on your life.

This is one of the most simple and effective ways to just feel so much better. Just look around yourself. Appreciate the good food you’re eating, the hot woman or man walking past you, the kids playing and just having fun in the mud puddles, all the possibilities in your life, all the great things about your friends and your family, the birds singing… Ok, so perhaps it sounds a bit corny.

But it really works. And it’s great to try to change your mindset to one where you appreciate the things in your everyday life instead of taking them for granted.

Take a glass of water, throw it in own your face. Or jump up and down ten times singing the chorus from “We are the champions” by Queen at the top of you lungs. Or imagine your negative inner voice sounding like Goofy. Do something that totally breaks your thought pattern. Something humours is nice because it’s often the opposite to a depressed or anxious state that you would like to break out of. And laughter and smiles breaks tension too.

When one reaches advanced years that is when one has lost so many friends. Each one in turn has a different reaction because

it is obvious that it will play on the mind that "my turn is getting nearer".

After a contented marriage of 46 years your best friend is your wife and in my case it was earth shattering. I stood up to it well but i found myself pouring two cups of tea, putting another slice of toast in the toaster, just as i had for years.

But the most devastating thing of all was coming home and shutting the door on silence. No hello darling how was the golf today?. These are the little this that hurt the most. My faith carries me through these losses though be cause as a medium i know that we do survive death in another dimension and that we will eventually see each other again, plus i have seen her again since then, and had evidence from other mediums telling me things that only i could have known.

I am now in my 20th year of being a widower.

Lose Your Best Friend

I lost my best friend of 11 years this past December 12th. We did everything together. Her birthday is in 2 days, she would have been 41. Death is never an easy thing to experience and memories still linger. But, you just try and focus on the positive things and remember the good times in your lives. You just remember that your friend would not want you mourning his/her loss forever! If you are having trouble getting out then you might need to see a doctor because their is medicine out there that can help!

A best friend is a trusted confident and "has your back".

It can take awhile depending on how close you were, how long, and the age you were when you became friends.

I lost my best friend but we had been apart for awhile and I had developed other relationships.

It was still painful. It is the who now am I gonna go to to pour out the stuff and get another perspective without judgment.

If I lost my best friend, it would be like losing a family member..I guess it would feel like how it did when my grandpa died..I couldn't cheer myself up, I just let time numb me.

i actually went through this last year

not in the sense that she past away but in a sense that she walked out of my life.

ive known her since kindergarden. weve been friends for 14 years and last year something happened and we didnt talk for a year.

it felt like a little piece of me died. she was such a HUGE part of my life i didnt think i could go back to normal for a while.

the first 4 months were hard, everything reminded me of us and being goofy, but after that i started hanging out with my other friends, got another job, i just kept myself busy so i wouldnt think about it

time does heal.