A grieving man found a trail of heartbreaking messages from his mother who died of brain cancer.
After flipping through her notebooks, the man realised his late mother had hidden hand-written messages for him throughout her diaries.
‘I just found the notebook today. I think it is really sad, but I am so glad to have it,’ he said on Reddit.
After flipping through his late mother’s notebooks, the man realised she had hidden hand-written messages for him throughout her diaries
The messages, which dated back to 2012, read as typical mother-to-son advice and asked him ‘to make good choices’.
He posted one particular message which stood out to him, the last diary entry dated August 10, 2017.
‘I didn’t think this day would come this fast and I had years to write this. I’m sorry I was wrong if it happens that way’.
The note was signed off as, ‘I love you and I hope you have a great blessed life. I love you, Mum’.
The post accumulated thousands of comments in support for the man with some relaying their own grief
It also made others aware of their own relationship with their parents as one user said he wanted to go hug his own mother
The post accumulated thousands of comments in support for the man with some relaying their own grief.
‘Lost mine to cancer when I was 16 but never left me anything like that. We still pay for his cellphone line five years later so that we can call and hear his voice on his voicemail,’ was one harrowing message on the read thread.
‘A mother is an irreplaceable figure in our lives. We should cherish our mother while we can and never take her for granted,’ one person wrote.
The handwritten letter hit a nerve with some users becoming emotional with the simple message beyond the grave
‘My mother passed from brain cancer February 2017. This was very touching. Thank you for posting,’ another wrote.
After the post gained the comments in support, the Reddit user thanked each person.
‘I’ve been bottling these feelings for a bit and now it’s sad to read all of these comments and let the emotions run through me,’ he wrote.
After the post gained the comments in support, the Reddit user thanked each person and reminisced over his mother’s memory