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.
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Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.
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.
The thing about grief is that it's a roller coaster - it's up, it's down. The emotions sometimes take over.
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.
Humans have a sense of spontaneity and emotion. We have a dichotomy between grief and happiness.
Grief causes suffering and disease.
Grief releases love and it also instills a profound sense of connection.
People talk about grief as if it's kind of an unremittingly awful thing, and it is. It is painful, but it's a very, very interesting sort of thing to go through, and it really helps you out. At the end of the day, it gets you through because you have to reform your relationship, and you have to figure out a way of getting to the future.
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.
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.
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