The belief that a person can and should only feel grief over one sad event at a time is a truly disturbing estimate of our emotional capacity.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The thing about grief is that it's a roller coaster - it's up, it's down. The emotions sometimes take over.
Everyone feels sad occasionally. A full range of emotions is part of what makes us human.
Humans have a sense of spontaneity and emotion. We have a dichotomy between grief and happiness.
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.
One feels as if it could never, never be less. And yet all griefs, when there is no bitterness in them, are soothed down by time.
Anyone who has experienced a certain amount of loss in their life has empathy for those who have experienced loss.
I think you have to deal with grief in the sense that you have to recognize that you have it, and say that it's OK to have all the sadness.
I think everyone feels alone in their sadness, and there's a certain value to hearing other people's sad stories.
One often calms one's grief by recounting it.
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.