daniorU said:

rogifan said:

Yep. This is a loss I don't think I'll ever get over.

This.

Indeed ... this

rogifan said:

Yep. This is a loss I don't think I'll ever get over.

I am griveing..

Last night as I celebrated the NY at midnight and we tossed our glasses... I thought "this is the first year WITHOUT HIM in it"

I ll continue to cherish the memories.. and ENJOY the music!!

I will always be grieving not being able to see him physically ever again, however the music he left us has helped so much with the healing.

Yes, in my own way. Leading up to Prince's death I absolutely hated his musical direction he was releasing, that I stopped purchasing his albums altogether. However, I missed out one one of the best Prince songs I've ever heard...when he was alive. That song is "June". That song captures all the creativity I've loved about Prince, since I started listening to him in the 80's. The lyrics, melody, and beat told such an beautiful story of heartbreak. That song gets played nonestop in my household now. My two alltime favotite Prince songs are now his 1984 rehearsal 19min version of "Neon Rendezvous" and "June". Both of those songs tells about heartbreak, and talks about waiting on an love that will never arrive.

I stiill think about him everyday. I check the org daily to see whats up so yes Prince's death still hurting inside. I dont think I will ever get over it. I just have to continue to cope the loss.

What i feel i think we all must share. Prince was a one-off and such an inspiration to all in his path.

I personally feel a huge amount of regret too. Being relatively young, I never experienced him perform live. I planned on doing so on his piano and microphone tour in the uk before is got cancelled . Although i never met the man, a hole still remains.

He is/was who i turned to for light and who is now always in my heart and mind.

Eye wish u heaven ❤❤❤

I am still grieving...still sad that he's gone....still regretting that I missed out on chances to see him live in more recent years. Those feelings will probably last a long time. HOWEVER, I am also happy that he left us with such a great legacy of love. So much beautiful music for me to catch up on.....and still time to try to emulate his spirit of love and joy. I will try to overcome my sorrow by being more like the person he wanted us all to be.

URTHE1 said:

lrn36 said:

His absense just makes ever other artist look lazy and inept in comparison. He was about as complete and fearless an artist as you could find in any medium. I've come to accept that he is gone, but the hard part is knowing there will never be another like him in this world or at least in our lifetime.

AMEN!! Hard to watch other artists perform. So many that don't have an ounce of his talent...........

His talent will be missed, but sort of comforting knowing that no one else is even on par with him to compare to, which in way Im grateful to have witnessed, and those that never paid attention to him dont know what they missed out on.

Superconductor said:

Not grieving but sad about the loss. As I didn't know him personally, it is a loss of the music and the live performances and goings on around him. I never used him or any other musician or celebrity to help me define who I am. I am a child of the eighties though and losing Prince, Bowie and George Michael in one year is a bit much. Just makes the sense of ageing and mortality ever more poignant. The way I deal with it is to listen to as much of Prince's music as I can and also reading some biographies. It really helps.

This....I didn't know him or meet him, but have been a fan since his beginnigs. Altho, I question myself as to why I respond as I have to his death for someone I never met. I, too listen to his music, have watched the movies, reading the books and look forward to whatever new releases are awaiting.

Serene777 said:

Yes and no. I don't cry anymore but I feel like I'm waiting. It's an odd feeling because I know I won't see him again in this lifetime. I went to Paisley Park in October and it felt like he had just stepped out for a minute to run an errand. Yet a part of me felt like I might see him around any corner. It's grief and I'm "fine," yet I can't shake this odd feeling of waiting for him to "come back." He literally entered his house one April night and stepped into eternity.

I too feel like I am waiting. Thanks for sharing.

Yes, which is why I continue to do scrapbook tribute pages.

northernrain said:

mnfriend said:

Yes, I am still grieving for Prince. I felt walloped upside my head when I first heard, then cried days. I left MN in 1985, only back very briefly (3 days) a few years later when my sister married, I was in the wedding, and have not been back since. As I was walking outside today listening to Prince music, I thought how much I'd love/but maybe too overcoming to slip back into MN undetected/ privately by myself to go to Paisley Park.

Do it!

Got all my Prince memorabillia down from the attic at the weekend .. its was all in a cardboard box so wanted to get it down and start preserving stuff. My old posters from way back, T-shirts, ticket stubs, programmes, a tambourine, bits of glitter from a show.. the now infamous glow stick from the O2 London last show..paper clippings..Controversy mags and every UK magazine I could find with Prince in it, basically a whole era lifetime of memories................ You know what can't bring myself to open those boxes !!

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I am not really grieving Prince at the moment, or ever really a lot since he died. I don't think I ever will, to be honest.

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Bowie's death had hit me much harder, although I am nowhere near a fan of him than I am of Prince. I had always admired Bowie though and thought he was a special artist for many of the same reasons. But I never really got into him and his music like I did with Prince. I just never got around to it. It was the first time I really mourned over the loss of a celebrity, I guess I was a bit sad that I hadn't been paying Bowie enough attention during his life and just as I started to explore him and his music more, he suddenly died. This made me feel quite sad and emotional, and I felt regret for not picking up on and appreciating Bowie sooner.

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The emotional way I reacted to Bowie's shocking death made me think what would happen to me if Prince would die. But then I thought: "Oh, Prince is in such good shape, he will live for a few more decades!". Little did I know...

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So when Prince died a few months later at first I just could not believe it. It wasn't humanly possible for Prince to die. Not now, not so soon! He was supposed to be climbing onstage well into his nineties, dying onstage like Johnny Guitar Watson did. Not die in an elevator at age 58.

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After that initial denial for a week or so I quickly decided to just accept Prince's death and not dive into a mourning process about Prince, I feared that would be too much for me emotionally next to handling the divorce from my ex that I was in the midst of around that time.
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Also I realised that although I have followed and admired Prince for 33 years as a fan, he was not a personal friend or relative but a public figure, a celebrity. This helped me stay cool over his death and helped me to emotionally shut myself off from his death.

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Obviously I still regard Prince's death as a huge loss and I have been wiping away the occasional little tear over him since his death when I was watching certain performances of him on YT or documentaries about him. But real deep prolonged grief: Thank God, no!!!

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I am actually pretty proud about how I handled Prince's death so far. It could have potentially have me devastated emotionally but by just staying rational and accepting the facts -realising there is nothing I can do about Prince's death and that he is not a relative or personal friend- I managed to stay strong and get on with life soon after.

Yes.

I feel exactly the same way, word for word.

Polo1026 said:

I am still grieving in certain moments, definitely not over it. I don't think people understand how Prince was able to convey strength and confidence to people who were desperately lonely and/or different. It's hard when I remember being so lonely as a child/teen but having songs like When Doves Cry or Anna Stesia or Forever in My Life or The Question of U or 17 days etc etc etc etc, Speak to you and give you the strength to kinda be yourself in this world no matter how much of an outcast you might be. The only way Prince could write the lyrics he wrote and pair it with the music he did, was because he truly understood loneliness. That's why I hate how he died so much but then I think, his children(songs) were with him and his best friend(God) came to get him and it gets better. I just wish everyone here and all of us learn to love each other and be there for each other because this won't last long. Stay together with your loved ones and forgive the ones who hurt you because you can't hold onto your pain forever. I learned through his music and through life that pain is a great motivator and a great crutch, if you don't let it go, it will consume you. Thank You Prince.

GimmeThat said:

Probably always will be, to some degree.

Not really... I'm trying to remind myself that we shouldn't be sad for what's gone, but we should be happy for what's happened. So I'm grateful for Prince's existence and what he's left behind. In addition, I feel that he communicates with us from time to time even though he's not physically with us. Like I had a few dreams about him, for example, he travelled with me somewehere, then he persuaded me to stop eating meat, then he got me pregnant and then we had a threesome with Michael Jackson On one hand, it's sad I never met him, let alone never had a chance to be his girlfriend or mother to his child, but I know from the dreams he takes care of me and I know he wants me to accomplish what he started.

FullLipsDotNose said:

Not really... I'm trying to remind myself that we shouldn't be sad for what's gone, but we should be happy for what's happened. So I'm grateful for Prince's existence and what he's left behind. In addition, I feel that he communicates with us from time to time even though he's not physically with us. Like I had a few dreams about him, for example, he travelled with me somewehere, then he persuaded me to stop eating meat, then he got me pregnant and then we had a threesome with Michael Jackson On one hand, it's sad I never met him, let alone never had a chance to be his girlfriend or mother to his child, but I know from the dreams he takes care of me and I know he wants me to accomplish what he started.

Me either. But watching the Golden Globes last night was a big let down. I used to watch award shows just on the off chance that Prince would suddenly walk out and present an award. Questlove was the dj last night and I bet he played a few Prince tunes. I noticed he played a lot of funk and some Childish Gambino aka Donald Glover which was nice to hear. I used to have dreams about him too.....dreams where I would talk to him or dreams where I would attend parties he hosted, etc. I met him once and got to shake his hand. I said one word to him and he said two words to me. I will miss him forever.

Yes, I have stopped grieving. I am grateful that he accomplished so much in his life and paid it forward for others to succeed. We will be learning of the seeds he planted for years to come.

the void is huge

[Edited 1/10/17 11:26am]

URTHE1 said:

lrn36 said:

His absense just makes ever other artist look lazy and inept in comparison. He was about as complete and fearless an artist as you could find in any medium. I've come to accept that he is gone, but the hard part is knowing there will never be another like him in this world or at least in our lifetime.

AMEN!! Hard to watch other artists perform. So many that don't have an ounce of his talent...........

April is gonna be here before you know it, and this is still not ok. I think I will always miss him, thank you for his music, it will live inside me forever!