The Day that began with a kiss on a beach and ended with the death of a mother.

Waking up at 4am.

I Check the news on the other side of the world, well the twittersphere, I see the pictures, I read the words of heartbroken young girls. What I now know to be the beautiful image of Tom Hiddleston & Taylor Swift in a romantic embrace starts the long day.

This one image that for unknown reasons stirred emotions of heartbreak and longing.  That pit of loneliness that can rear its head at unassuming moments such as dawn breaking. My emotions found its release in tears shed for fictional characters in the film ‘me before you’, a well made film that didn’t try to be anything more than a story about caring for the one you love. I cried for the characters but also for the part of myself that fears going through life alone, who reads and watches loves stories, wonderings when my narrative of love will…