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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.
Grief is at once a public and a private experience. One's inner, inexpressible disruption cannot be fully realized in one's public persona.
Acknowledgment of grief - well, it makes feeling the grief easier, not harder.
Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
The thing about grief is that it's a roller coaster - it's up, it's down. The emotions sometimes take over.
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.
In some cases, some people do get depressed in the middle of their grief, and they really need to be treated for depression.
Grief releases love and it also instills a profound sense of connection.
No one can tell you what to expect or can offer a guide to grief. Because every relationship is so unique, no two people grieve the same way. And you have no idea how you are going to grieve till you are grieving.
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.