No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
The thing about grief is that it's a roller coaster - it's up, it's down. The emotions sometimes take over.
But there is a discomfort that surrounds grief. It makes even the most well-intentioned people unsure of what to say. And so many of the freshly bereaved end up feeling even more alone.
Grief is at once a public and a private experience. One's inner, inexpressible disruption cannot be fully realized in one's public persona.
In our culture I think most people think of grief as sadness, and that's certainly part of it, a large part of it, but there's also this thorniness, these edges that come out.
Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.
Humans have a sense of spontaneity and emotion. We have a dichotomy between grief and happiness.
Grief is characterized much more by waves of feeling that lessen and reoccur, it's less like stages and more like different states of feeling.
I think everyone understands grief, the journey it takes us on, whether it's the death of a loved one, the end of a relationship, a disappointment. Some people don't deal with it, the power of it. Some do. Some feel the weight of it and it informs their choices. I've had to open up to grief in different contexts.
Grief releases love and it also instills a profound sense of connection.