For Granted

When something you once took for granted disappears, the feeling of loss is so profound, you can't even begin to feel it. You don't realise the true immensity of the situation at hand. You don't know just how much you'll suffer in the days, weeks, months to come. You don't understand that life can never get back to the way you once knew it to be.

And yet, once it all begins to sink in, you scramble. You try with every possible way, to hold on to everything you once had. It is so hard, so difficult to pretend as if the hurt isn't pulsating from every nerve in your body. You try, and with every day that goes by, you try just a little bit harder. And pretty soon, you're throwing all caution in the wind, doing every single thing you can, because you just want to rid yourself of the anguish that has become so routine to you.

All because of something you once took for granted.