Funerals...I’ve been to three in six months

Awful experiences where everyone tries to sum up years of a life into an hour of remembrance, where everyone sheds tears, where it's "acceptable" to lose it, where your heart slowly breaks over and over again, where it never seems enough to honor the dead, where the living all fruitlessly try to comfort each other, and where I least wish I had been today.

(Unfortunately, I was actually at a funeral earlier today.)