Covering

We all have a part of ourselves that we want to cover. Covering is when a person admits the possession of a stigma, but keeps it from looming large. For me, the death of my grandparents was something I tried to cover. Both of my grandparents died within a four month time period, so the sadness I experienced really started to grow. For months, I tried to act like everything was okay on the outside by smiling, but on the inside, I felt like a huge part of my life was now missing. In a sense I tried to "cover" the feelings inside of me.