We all are.

SPYZFAN1 said:

I think I'm getting worse. At first I wanted to listen to some of his old albums again, and they were good, and made me feel good. Now I just get sad and have stopped listening to Prince. Even the happy songs make me feel sad. Breakdown was in hindsight not a good track to listen too, but Art Official Cage just made me feel bad too, just thinking it was all over.

And the references to song lines on here get's me too, so much of his music is completely and forever imprinted in my brain, tracks that most people have never heard of I know word for word. I guess people on here understand that, but nobody in real life around me does.

No other music affected me like this, and no other artist has been there through so many important parts of my life.

I hope he was happy, I'm not sure if he was or not, but he deserved to be. Maybe he should have taken some time off, just to enjoy life and get away from work, but I guess the music is what gave him happyness, so he probably was very happy when he was making music.

This is like the MJ nightmare all over again. But worse.

you ain't the only one. I know that plenty of footage has been uploaded to you tube but I'm so obsessed with dealing with what went wrong and what it means that I haven't watched very much of it. From the time I get up, or wake up, mid-sleep, I check for updates, in my spare moments I check. Just trying to come to terms with losing a guy I was 90 percent sure would be around at least until his seventies and probably longer. You know, when you've got the music in you, some guys just seem ageless, i thought he would be one.

I have been surprised how hard this hit me too. His music has been in my life since 1978 so it is hard to believe he is gone. I do find watching the concert vids makes it a little better. He got such joy in playing live. I like seeing him happy and that twinkle in his eye.

Me too... i found some Yogurt at wrok that expired 4/21/16 I had a little meltdown... and the thing where they played Nothing Compares 2 U (even if I was hoping they would play his studio version) i was pretty crused againg. (and that was the same day they said he had plans to enter rehab on the 22)

My cleaning ritual is 2 put on Prince Music and go 2 town cleaning started tearing with SOTT first song, do u know how hard it is 2 sweep with water in ur eyes! I turned the volume down so i could barely hear it and continued eventually shutting it off completely

It’s so hard 2 get back 2 normal

monkeyrose said:

My cleaning ritual is 2 put on Prince Music and go 2 town cleaning started tearing with SOTT first song, do u know how hard it is 2 sweep with water in ur eyes! I turned the volume down so i could barely hear it and continued eventually shutting it off completely

It’s so hard 2 get back 2 normal

i still remember hearing SOTT for the first time. on an old Hifi with huge headphones on. I got disorientated and it felt like i was falling.... falling into the sound.

A few days ago I spent about 10 or 15 minutes wondering in the back of my mind about things that might be holding up Phase 3, and thinking "well, maybe he changed his mind and is on to something else" before I thought, "Oh. Yeah. He's dead."

The fDeluxe thing got to me. And I'm still not listening to much of his music, probably because of the mixture of feelings. I've worked on organizing my files, and caught some other things that have shown up different places (because if I don't they might be hard to find later), but mostly without listening to it.

I think I'm on hold until the explanation of his death is done. I want to know what happened so I can try to process it all at once. The idea that this last few years, during which it seemed from out here that things were going pretty well for him, were really a time of marked physical decline and unhappiness--that's something that's upsetting for me, on top of the actual death. I know that it's possible to misread people (on a personal face-to-face level I'm terrible at it), and obviously I had no real connection to Prince, but I certainly missed that one. So let me know what all I'm sad about, and then I'll just let go.

At least, I hope that knowing more about what happened helps, and lets it get better.

EddieC said:

I don't know how to explain this, but I almost don't feel anything. I can cry but it will only be for 30 seconds to a minute. I'm still in shock. I don't know. I feel so weird for not feeling anything. I keep reading all these posts about people going into depression-like episodes and not eating for days, but I'm not going through anything near that. I don't know what's wrong with me.

the fans never really had a chance to say goodbye.. so theres absolutely no closure.. no true public memorial or tribute.

dolphinkiing23 said:

dolphinkiing23 said:

the fans never really had a chance to say goodbye.. so theres absolutely no closure.. no true public memorial or tribute.

There's one in L.A. today. I don't know why they don't stream it live online...

OnlyNDaUsa said:

monkeyrose said:

My cleaning ritual is 2 put on Prince Music and go 2 town cleaning started tearing with SOTT first song, do u know how hard it is 2 sweep with water in ur eyes! I turned the volume down so i could barely hear it and continued eventually shutting it off completely

It’s so hard 2 get back 2 normal

i still remember hearing SOTT for the first time. on an old Hifi with huge headphones on. I got disorientated and it felt like i was falling.... falling into the sound.

the best!

KenGloria said:

dopedog said:

I had a busy day yesterday, which was good because it kept my mind off all of this for a while, but then I dropped into a supermarket to pick up a few things. Everything was fine until I approached the checkout line and saw the endcaps filled with special issues of Newsweek and People. They were at paced at eye level, so there he was, looking like the Prince we have always known, if not better, and part of me was happy to see him on the cover of a magazine and part of me wanted to pick up the magazines and possibly buy them, but I couldn't. I just stood there for a moment feeling terrible and reverted back to denial. He was looking directly at me, eye to eye, on the Newsweek cover and I couldn't bear it. I left the magazines on the rack. I'm not ready for them yet but I feel as if I NEED them to help me come to terms with everything. I listened to Art Official Age on the drive home and started to feel the same way I felt on April 21--a mixture of confusion, anger and disbelief. I thought I was further along, but like KenGloria, I'm still going through it too.

Im still struggling too, thought I would be getting it together by now, but nope - still feeling bad and even thought sometimes through the week I just did not want to wake up coz it is a nightmare (but I would not do anything silly) but I am sure you know what I mean

Everytime I think I'm over I come across something on twitter, a comment, a commemoration, a photo.. or a song, and I start getting nostalgic again.