Honestly part of the hardest part of losing someone is that you only realize everything they did when they aren’t around to do it anymore.

For example, my uncle used to help us close our pool every summer and then suddenly there was nobody to help and it just felt like a wave of grief every time it was time to close the pool. This can be hard to do as a neighbor especially if you live in the city, but if there’s anything you noticed their family member used to do like shovel their front front steps or rake the leaves or whatever, it’s a nice gesture to try to step up to fill that role once in a while.

Another thing that helps is also just reminders that you remmeber their loved one (if you knew them) or that you remember your neighbor lost a loved one. Even if it’s just a card around the holidays or flowers every few months saying thinking of you. It can be hard to watch the world move on while you’re still grieving and your world was turned upside down. It seems like the world grieves for the first month, but after that it’s just you grieving and everybody else has moved on and forgotten about it.