Don't want no bitching here, just want to know how you are all doing???

Me... Still in shock. Still playing his music non stop. Still don't want to hear anything else right now. Playing his music extra loud in my car too, as I just want everyone to hear it & to show them how amazing he was. Feel guilty as hell though, if I skip/fast forward a song on any album.

Have days where I kind of forget & carry on as normal, then have days where the tears just flow & flow out of nowhere & I feel completely empty.Sometimes it feels he has been gone forever & other days it feels like it was yesterday.

Just so grateful that he created so much music and in so many different styles.

Find myself listening to songs and hearing the lyrics differently. Like the lyrics from The Vault - 'There is lonely and there is lonely & there is how I feel right now' really hurt to hear. Also the lyrics to Wherever u go, whatever u do from Rave to the joy, are a true inspiration & the song that is helping me right now. Every parent should sing this to their child.
I always wanted to let him know just how much his music changed my life and that he meant the world to me & often thought of sending a letter. I know the chances of him getting the letter would of been very slim (I'm sure he got many), but at least i would of known that I sent it, when he was still here with us.

not good... keep thinking I'm starting to move on, then I have a cry! I'll get there... someday

I cycle through all the different stages of grief. I've lost a lot of people close to me, and what hurts the most is that understanding of it. Like, I remember how the numbness feels. It's becoming a familiar process and that's the worst thing.


More than anything I miss just knowing that he was here with us. Somewhere, singing, writing, just.... here.

i'm okay. but, i'm always gonna miss his positivity

I lost my two fav artists .. it sux .. how am I supposed to be? Im beyond tore up m sad.

[Edited 7/6/16 18:11pm]

Summer just isnt the same....

2016 kinda sux

Can't stop listening to Prince. But that's 'arite. I'm improving, listening to artists Prince liked as well as Prince. My family thinks I'm losing it, so I have to do it on the down low.

I'm struggling. Just confused, heart-broken and even lonely in a way.

The only time it subsides is when I'm alone, playing his music on my guitar. I get the strongest sensation that he's right there in the room. This has never happened to me before. I started to tell someone about it recently but decided not to bc I'm already "obsessed with Prince."

I'm a full grown woman but several times a day still, I just wish he'd come back.

For me it's different with Prince than any other musician because so much was kept out of eyes and ears and now the internet is flooded and there is so much to watch and hear, it is unbelievable. I want to see all I can before the web sheriff takes it all away. I read on here from people that Prince was fine, he had what he wanted and did what he dreamed of...but there is something haunting about him. I feel a sadness around him that I just can't explain. Maybe it's just my own sadness and his death reminding me of my own mortality...I don't know. I can't put my finger on it really. I just can't shake the feeling that for all he accomplished, for all he had and for all he gave, there was a deep sadness there. I hope I'm wrong.

I heard Empty Room today and thought, "Now I know how he must have felt when he wrote that."

I feel I'm doing OK at last. His music is a different listen now. Other artists I've loved have passed away and that has helped a bit in terms of Prince leaving. I know i can't ever enjoy his music the same as I once did though. Knowing he's gone just changes EVERYTHING.

Militant said:

I cycle through all the different stages of grief. I've lost a lot of people close to me, and what hurts the most is that understanding of it. Like, I remember how the numbness feels. It's becoming a familiar process and that's the worst thing.


More than anything I miss just knowing that he was here with us. Somewhere, singing, writing, just.... here.

Right? Knowing that he´s no longer with us on this planet is a feeling I still have to get used to. It may sound corny but life just isn´t the same anymore.

Militant said:

BillieBalloon said:

Militant said:

More than anything I miss just knowing that he was here with us. Somewhere, singing, writing, just.... here.

Same here

I feel the same. His absence in this dimension is very real to me and I feel emptiness knowing he is not around singing, writing, producing, playing, etc. The Sheila E tribute actually made it worse because her screaming and sliding like him made me sad realizing he would never be around to do it again.

The world (my world) is not the same.

not great.

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listening to songs and looking at pictures I'm now fine with and enjoying again after initial sadness.

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Watching videos/live shows I'm struggling with a bit. Sometims I'm high on how good it is, other times have to turn it off.

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What really gets me is watching people talk about him, or watching people enjoying his music live. As that really connects and upsets me.

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beautifulone7 said:

BillieBalloon said:

Militant said: Same here

I feel the same. His absence in this dimension is very real to me and I feel emptiness knowing he is not around singing, writing, producing, playing, etc. The Sheila E tribute actually made it worse because her screaming and sliding like him made me sad realizing he would never be around to do it again.

The world (my world) is not the same.

Yeah I agree with tribute comment. As great as it was, it really made him being gone hit home. As all those on stage were funking and dancing and singing with him not being the leader or a part of that just hit home in a massive way.

Overall, much better than before. Still focused very much on Prince, still haven't been able to go back to listening to other music just yet. Still the occasional bout with tears. But I definitely am feeling so much appreciation and gratitude, which has been good for me as initially I was focused just on the grief , sadness and emptiness. Looking ahead . . .no Prince. . .that was the primary thought I had before and I no longer dwell on that.

Sort of in a cloud...until I get hit with the reality again and cry. It's not 24/7, but it's a lot of my time. I feel like watery eyes are a permanent state of affairs for me. I just can't seem to accept that he is gone.

Militant said:

I cycle through all the different stages of grief. I've lost a lot of people close to me, and what hurts the most is that understanding of it. Like, I remember how the numbness feels. It's becoming a familiar process and that's the worst thing.


More than anything I miss just knowing that he was here with us. Somewhere, singing, writing, just.... here.

That's it exactly. I was content just knowing that he was somewhere doing whatever. Now it's like the world doesn't make sense anymore.

For me it still changes from day to day, but mostly still sadness and a sense of being alone. He's the 1st thing I think about when I wake in the morning and the last I think about in bed at night. I feel like he's trying to teach me or tell something that I'm just not getting yet. I'm short tempered with people in my life who have no idea why (except my son, he knows) and still can't listen to some of his music. I watched "Purple Rain with my son when it 1st happened to share his work with him (he's only 11 so never knew about him), but now can't bring myself to watch any of his films even though I loved them them all. But his Lovesexy tour video from Germany makes me smile, however I have to skip when he sings "The Cross". It turns me inside out

Like most here it seems, not good. Can't believe the depth of the hole his loss has left. I've said in several posts, nobody except when I lost my daughter 12 years ago the 26th of this month, ever hit me like this. I don't understand it, it doesn't feel like it will ever heal. I can't listen to anybody eles songs, I'd feel so disloyal. I haven't even begun to feel like a scab is forming, the wound is fresh. I guess because we don't know the total why that this happened. Everything is just a giant question mark.

I still cry some mornings, I think about it a lot more than I probably should (more than a few times a day), I've developed a compulsion to being on here - I feel like I have to, I either feel really irritable, sad, or really blah. Definitely better than I was the first week, though.

I go along okay, but then something triggers me (a look someone gets that reminds me of Prince, a song, a picture) and then I have the sudden thought, "He's gone", and I'm crying all over again and in shock because it doesn't seem possible. It still does not make sense to me. I'm not sure that it ever will.

derrick31 said:

I think about Prince everyday. I think about my own mortality a lot more now. I see life a lot differently now to be honest.

Same here. I've said on an older thread, I'm not really "afraid" of death anymore. I guess it's knowing that he'll be up there too...it's comforting in a way. However, it still seems unreal and I'm just waiting to wake up from this horrific nightmare