Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Perhaps grief is not about empty, but full. The full breath of life that includes death. The completeness, the cycles, the depth, the richness, the process, the continuity and the treasure of the moment that is gone the second you are aware of it.
Grief is at once a public and a private experience. One's inner, inexpressible disruption cannot be fully realized in one's public persona.
Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.
Grief releases love and it also instills a profound sense of connection.
Grief causes suffering and disease.
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 exhausting.
The thing about grief is that it's a roller coaster - it's up, it's down. The emotions sometimes take over.
Grief changes shape, but it never ends.
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.