Dad finds daughter’s heartbreaking texts to dead grandpa
A British father has shared the heartbreaking texts he found on his old phone which his daughter was using to send messages to her dead grandfather.
Journalist and radio presenter, James O’Brien, shared the emotional text messages on Twitter, which generated an outpouring of compassion and kindness.
“My youngest has had my old phone for a couple of years,” he explained. “Just for games, which I download for her before disconnecting the internet.”
However, his young daughter had a different use in mind for the second-hand phone.
“Still has my old contacts though & it turns out she’s been messaging my dad, who died 5 years ago,” he wrote.
O’Brien’s tweet quickly went viral on Twitter as users remembered the unique ways they used to deal with the heartbreak of losing a family member.
One user wrote, “Just lost my Mum. For several days I’ve wanted to text her, tell her things. Your girl is adorable.”
Another wrote, “My brother died in a car crash and I used to do the same until we had to cut his phone off. Kept his last messages for ages after he died.”
One wrote, “I’m sure that wherever he is, he is seeing those messages and having a big beaming smile. Sometimes when life is getting me down. I have a little talk with my grandmother who died 17 years ago. I don’t know if she is here or can hear me. But it cannot hurt to hope so.”
One user said, “Bless you both, sending you both love!! My gran died this week that I’m very close to & I’m still deciding how to honour her. I’m thinking of engaging in the bisto scheme of having an older person to Sunday dinner weekly. I hate people being lonely.”
At the time of writing, the post has received over 152,000 likes and nearly 30,000 retweets.