“ My father left six years ago. Grief is a strange thing”

“Hoje, Friday 13, it has been exactly six years since my father left.” It was with these words that Dália Madruga started the publication she made on her Instagram page. 

Along with photographs that are fond memories that keep from moments lived with the father, Dália showed images of childhood, the day of her marriage to Marcos Tenório Bastinhas and other occasions lived in the family, including her sister, Nuria Madruga, mother or children.

“ My sister and I lost the father, my mother the companion of the whole life and our children the grandfather ", described. 

“The mourning is a strange thing. There are days when you arrive with immense sadness and others when you visit us through a memory, a smile or simply the memory of good things. Because longing can also be beautiful”, reflected later. 

“I miss my father. But I like to believe that you're still around, looking out for us and proud of the life we're building every day. I'm still your girl who gets everything. Strong, safe and determined, even when sometimes I have to pretend I'm all that. He believed in me. And when, 14 years ago, I decided to leave to live far away, 200 km apart, the only thing he said to me was: “You’ll be happy”, she then shared, saying that “you never forgot these words”.

“Today, I understand their meaning even better. Perhaps this is one of the greatest roles of parents: loving so much that we are able to give up our own will to let the children fly,” he added. 

“ That's what he taught me, maybe without even realizing it. And that's what I try to do every day with my kids. Give them roots, but also wings. Let them leave, choose, risk and build their own paths, knowing that the most important thing is that they are happy”, he continued. 

“ I know wherever you are, you keep rooting for me. And I'm still his little girl. Always. Some loves don't end. We only learn to live them in another way”, one can read finally in the publication of Dália Madruga. 

To remember that the father of the sisters Dália and Nuria Madruga, Constantine Silva, died on November 13, 2020, at the age of 66.