17/12/2025
When we're young and less experienced with grief, we tend to have this misconception that it is this thing we move beyond... this thing with stages we progress through and then we're done. But, life eventually teaches us - usually after suffering profound loss - that although grief does drag us through several stages, it is actually a lifelong companion.
What we discover is that grief is not a study in sorrow, any more than it is a successive series of advanced classes one can pass in order to claim expertise in sadness.
Grief is an individual, personal, lifelong emotional and spiritual journey - one of acceptance, relinguishment, adaptation, and self-discovery.
It is slowly making peace with life being forever changed, while simultaneously relearning how to live again (with love and joy).
It is discovering gratitude through heartache, beauty through despair, enlightenment through struggle, and forgiveness through pain.
Grief is, quite simply, the deepest and purest form of love, and one of the most challenging, yet also revealing, navigations of life.
Thank you to Ullie Kaye Poetry for her beautiful meme, "A Nearby Distance." ❤️🧡💚💙💛💜
