Do you ever randomly miss your parent years after they died?

[drivinmecrazy]

I'm having one of those days today.
My lovely dad passed away16 years ago.
Most of the time i can compartmentalise it, but sometimes it just hits me.
It's like I'm reliving that moment all these years later.
I'm sure it's normal but each time it happens it's like a punch in the stomach.

So today I'm resigned to just be sad and wait for it to pass.
I just want to wallow in the sadness for a while.
I know tomorrow it'll be behind me.
I guess it'll always be like this?

Yeah I miss my mum and dad randomly and get teary I slipped and fell in the ice and immediately wanted my mum she died 10 years ago dad 40 years 🥹

I found this.
It was the "little, big moments" I found hard, particularly in the early years after we lost them, when my dc were still small.
The 'my tooth came out today' / 'I scored a goal' / 'I got my 10m swimming badge' / 'I started cubs' / moment when I wanted to just phone them and pass the phone to my dc.
Then it becomes the GCSE results day, and what we consider the bigger life events, but oddly those little things I found really hard.