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Thread started 05/01/16 1:52pm

peppeken

Does anyone else just feel incredibly sad...

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Reply #1 posted 05/01/16 2:07pm

nursev

We all do...but were working through it like he'd want us too comfort

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Reply #2 posted 05/01/16 2:13pm

XxAxX

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yeah. but for the first time this morning i didn't feel like crying a little when i remembered that prince ain't waking up too. it's gonna be all right someday. prince ain't gone anyway, he's just around the corner .. ..

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Reply #3 posted 05/01/16 2:13pm

ShoeSize522

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I just feel...numb. The day Prince died was painful for me for more reasons than just hearing the news about him, but, I've just been playing his music pretty much nonstop since, and it's helped ease the pain...a little.
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Reply #4 posted 05/01/16 2:14pm

Guitarhero

Certain songs still make me cry , i try not to listen to them for a while. grouphug

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Reply #5 posted 05/01/16 2:14pm

jlucky

Yes. It's slowly becoming easier...but I'm still down.
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Reply #6 posted 05/01/16 2:19pm

peppeken

Thanks 😔
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Reply #7 posted 05/01/16 2:21pm

radici27

Deflated, have been since the 21st

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Reply #8 posted 05/01/16 2:25pm

Welcome2daRevo
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peppeken said:

😥

Last Sunday...incredibly cry
Today...just cry
I'm getting there.
CALL ME A DREAMER 2!
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Reply #9 posted 05/01/16 2:29pm

maceoparker007

I am just mesmorised by all the performances of him on youtube right now...this one in particular I must of watched 5 times today.

Its so IMMENSE and my heart yearns for him to come back....I think its going to take a month or two before the sadness completely goes. The guy was just friggin amazing...

https://www.youtube.com/w...1eopJqmZwo

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Reply #10 posted 05/01/16 2:34pm

MissMarySharon

I still feel very sad and subdued, but am finding comfort in watching his vids and listening to his music. I've decided I don't want his death to remain pointless and distressing to me, I thought I would try and be inspired by him and finish an art project, or work on my photography, maybe create or achieve some small thing in his honour.

I think we all have find what works for us in our own time..some will be able to move ahead quicker than others etc. and it's not a race or anything. I find it helps to get outside, maybe go for a walk. Try and hang in there and ride it out.
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Reply #11 posted 05/01/16 2:45pm

maleeboo

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Horribly so. I stayed with a friend last night and she was flicking across the tv channels and sign o the times was on. We just started watching and I talked about the different band members. It was incredibly cathartic, but monumentally tragic.
'Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another.'- Einstein
Dance on beautiful one
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Reply #12 posted 05/01/16 2:45pm

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Yes, incredibly. The shock has worn off so the initial heart wrenching pain has passed, but the dark sadness lingers.
It's a hurtful place, the world, in and of itself. We don't need to add to it. We all need one another. ~ PRN
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Reply #13 posted 05/01/16 2:52pm

maceoparker007

I just died several times watching this just now...god I never realised he could dance like that!

https://www.youtube.com/w...HiNSYThDO0

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Reply #14 posted 05/01/16 4:24pm

Superfan1984

It's weird because, it has hit me WAY harder than I ever expected it to. I have always been a Prince fan but since I didn't know him personally I never expected this feeling---- like someone that I absolutely KNOW has died. I can't sleep, first thing I think before going to bed or waking up, or even in the middle of the night is, "Prince is dead." sad And then you couple that with the WAY he died, which I keep thinking about.. and.... awful...
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Reply #15 posted 05/01/16 5:00pm

firebird319

Superfan1984 said:

It's weird because, it has hit me WAY harder than I ever expected it to. I have always been a Prince fan but since I didn't know him personally I never expected this feeling---- like someone that I absolutely KNOW has died. I can't sleep, first thing I think before going to bed or waking up, or even in the middle of the night is, "Prince is dead." sad And then you couple that with the WAY he died, which I keep thinking about.. and.... awful...


exactly this. i'm trying to get inspired by what he left us, but the simple fact and the unclear and distressing circumstances are still just too much sometimes.

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Reply #16 posted 05/01/16 5:02pm

Superfan1984

yes-- thank you--- hugs to you too smile
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Reply #17 posted 05/01/16 5:11pm

UncleGrandpa

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For the sake of comparison, I've had two aunts and a very loved dear neighbor pass away in the past few months, I was only able to go to one in the hospital and say my good bye. I mourned their deaths but didn't breakdown into hysterics and I didn't do the same over Prince. I've been on the cusp of crying but the feeling faded quickly, I feel it would be disingenuous to weep more over him whom I never had a personal meeting with and not do the same over the family members who I knew well.

Jeux Sans Frontiers
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Reply #18 posted 05/01/16 6:16pm

Elvie

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sonshine said:

Yes, incredibly. The shock has worn off so the initial heart wrenching pain has passed, but the dark sadness lingers.


This for me also.

I wake everyday to a realisation that he's not here anymore and feel it just can't be true. "It's not as though he was family" my own family say to me, but he's been part for my life since I was a young girl, so it's just like mourning a loved one. I know I didn't know him personally, or share a life with him, he just shaped me so much into the woman I am today and the way I live my life now. Many don't understand though. So yes, I think the sadness will linger in me forever.

X <3 X
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Reply #19 posted 05/01/16 6:20pm

1contessa

Yes, every day when I wake up and I think of Prince, and that he's no longer here.

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Reply #20 posted 05/01/16 6:22pm

emesem

No so much sad but mostly angry at the circumstances and also half in denial. Still hasnt fully sunk in. Its very similar to when a close family member dies. You catch yourself almost forgetting.

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Reply #21 posted 05/01/16 6:37pm

radici27

maceoparker007 said:

I am just mesmorised by all the performances of him on youtube right now...this one in particular I must of watched 5 times today.

Its so IMMENSE and my heart yearns for him to come back....I think its going to take a month or two before the sadness completely goes. The guy was just friggin amazing...

https://www.youtube.com/w...1eopJqmZwo

Yes, he was operating on a different plain

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Reply #22 posted 05/01/16 8:01pm

hardwork

maceoparker007 said:

I just died several times watching this just now...god I never realised he could dance like that!

https://www.youtube.com/w...HiNSYThDO0

Jesus, this is so great. What a mind fuck time this is. The MAN is gone only a few days AND loads of the most incredible footage is all over YouTube all at once. Serious mindfuck. There is pain but these are interesting times indeed. I am just floored by this footage. There CANNOT have been one greater - like ever in the history of man.

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Reply #23 posted 05/01/16 8:45pm

somethinginthe
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I have been in a deep depression since the news broke. I find myself hoping each morning that I am waking from a bad dream, and then I remember. I honestly don't know how to cope with something I didn't imagine happening. I am in denial about his death in one moment; in the other, I am cognizant of reality while still wishing it weren't true.



Besides the forum, I don't think people in my life can't fully understand the grief I am feeling right now. A world without Prince in it seems scary and wrong. I know he has left his music behind, but, to me, I feel empty without my teacher and friend. You see, Prince - was - my childhood. He -was- my adolescence. He -was- my 20s and 30s. He walked with me and led me to this place we call "middle age," and now I am wondering how to continue on this path without the comfort of knowing he is there.



I have a strong belief in God, but times like these truly test my faith. "Please let everything You promised be true," I plead with Him. Especially with Prince gone, it's as if Jesus is asking, "Do you trust in me?" I answer "Yes," but the concept of death, even with the assurance of Heaven, still scares me.

Prince summed it up:



Everybody's looking 4 the answers
How the story started and how it will end
What's the use in half a story, half a dream
U have 2 climb all of the steps in between (yeah, we ride)

Everybody's looking 4 the ladder
Everybody wants salvation of the soul
The steps u take are no easy road (the steps you take are no easy road) (It's not that easy)
But the reward is great 4 Those who want 2 go (I do)


prince cry rose

Everybody's looking 4 the answers
How the story started and how it will end
What's the use in half a story, half a dream
U have 2 climb all of the steps in between......RIP Prince
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Reply #24 posted 05/01/16 8:47pm

molissab

Today was my 43rd birthday, and I just wanted to stay in my yoga pants and cry all day. It is hard starting year 43 knowing there will not be year 58 for Prince. I am just sad and it's not improving much.

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Reply #25 posted 05/01/16 9:08pm

tiggerlane

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Yes, and I didn't sleep at all on the nights of the 21st and 22nd. I have dreamed about him a lot the last week. He just shows up...dancing and not singing, but playing his guitar.

Thankful for this forum, as I am a business professional facing this in a rural Arkansas community where his influence isn't as evident. You guys help me feel like my grief is normal.
"I gave my love, I gave my life, I gave my body and mind..." - P
Thank you for the gifts - we will all meet again, dear Prince.
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Reply #26 posted 05/01/16 10:17pm

meagemini2

Yep.....everytime someone says that word - you know the one - I'm like huh?

Am I hearing things? That can't be? Am I in an alternate universe? Everything seems

dulled in a way...you know when you swim under the water, you can hear sounds

above but they are not crisp and sharp and when you look up toward the surface, you can see shapes but can't really make

out what it is. It's kinda like that.

I have had Prince music in my head all day - like a personal Prince radio channel. I think it might

be my subconscience trying to "accept" that he really is no longer here. I just

keep telling myself, it won't always be like this. it will be hard for a while and

then not as hard....someday. Peace and Love.

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Reply #27 posted 05/01/16 10:18pm

purpleforeverl
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I wake up wishing this was just a bad dream, then i have moments when i can't stop crying. It's hard for me eat and watch his video's. I'll be sad for a long time! sad neutral cry

I look forward 2 seeing Prince again in paradise, Revelation 21:3,4

You and me are like two ships passing
Never reaching shore
If we ever, ooh, if we ever did
We'd just want more
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Reply #28 posted 05/01/16 11:10pm

derrick31

All the time since the 21st of April.

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Reply #29 posted 05/01/16 11:19pm

joshmos

Yes. I do. like a cloud is over me all the time it's all I think about...it makes no sense..but it's getting better..I think we will all feel a part of us is missing...he was family to us. It will take a long long time..if ever...

Purplehead
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