A few days ago I dreamed Dimitra was lying next to me and said she wanted to have sex. I woke up feeling a strange mix of arousal and confusion, but it was also very comforting lying there next to her.
A friend, who once was very close to her, told me she had recently appeared in his dream too, probably under different circumstances, and I thought how beautiful it is that as long as dead people are still remembered, they will keep appearing in people’s dreams, as alive as they have ever been.
Aside from that, she recently made small differences to the lives of two friends of mine she never met. This I find very touching.
All the same, she remains as dead as she has been for more than eighteen months. And I miss her.
I have long considered missing an unhelpful feeling. It seemed to get in the way of my moving on โ an oh how I wanted to move on. In grief too I am impatient.
There was also the at times difficult relationship with a beautiful but complex person that I am still digesting. It somehow seemed more difficult to do that while also focusing on missing her.
But as I have been able to give my brain some breathing space recently, I realise that I do miss her.
Yes, I miss cooking for someone. I miss sleeping next to someone. And I miss making love to someone. But I also miss her being that someone.
That of course is fine. Missing someone is actually a very beautiful feeling, even if it does at times feel bittersweet, especially when you realise you can’t ever fix things that were broken and you can’t do more of the things you didn’t do enough of โ for there is that too.
It is possible to miss someone while also being fine. I am. There are many good things happening in my life and I owe them all to her, including being given the chance to become a better person.
I look forward to her visiting me in my dreams again soon. Maybe I can tell her about those things.