One often calms one's grief by recounting it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The thing about grief is that it's a roller coaster - it's up, it's down. The emotions sometimes take over.
I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it.
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
Grief jumps out at you when you're least expecting it.
Grief is exhausting.
In recounting our woes, we often soothe them.
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.
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.
Acknowledgment of grief - well, it makes feeling the grief easier, not harder.
Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.