In the middle of sadness

Today started out as any other day, then it seemed as though I was in the middle of sadness.... my mother and my oldest daughter both crying and sad today. Fifty years divide them with one commonality between them "Me"...a daughter to one and the mother to the other. Different personalities...regardless of differences they both love, desire companionship, hate doing things alone and longs for the family norm to be once again. Today Paige's sadness along with crying makes your heart break, she misses Mark so much, she misses her family unit, she misses her family, her home and spending time with their friends. It makes her so sad to do things without Mark....she traveled to her dads today, very sad that she did not have Mark to be with her and the girls. Then we head fifty years forward, my mother....sad, frustrated, and hates doing things alone..her husband died last year and as with any one that has gone through the loss of their spouse would know, it takes a very long time to get really going after it. She misses him so much, though she does not really share that, you can see it in her. Simple things upset her, simple things make her cry on days that she misses him so much. I guess my thought of this, though your related, though your spouse is not here..neither one can understand how the other feels...so that is when I become in the middle of sadness....I have experienced neither, I don't know their feelings, I don't know how to comfort either one..this brings me to sadness....I pray for time to fly for Paige and the girls so their daddy/husband hurries to get home...I am thankful my mother had a great man for herself and that she knows us kids are here for her in the best way we can be.......I love them both and will do all I can to help them through sad times, will do my best to make them smile. I am so Thankful for them both.