Grief comes in many forms and comes to everyone in different ways. The important thing is to not keep the emotions away, but to feel them. Grief is our way of accepting and, as to your question, dealing with loss. The bigger the loss, the keener the grief. There is no timetable, there is no plan. Grief works in mysterious ways and will take its time. Often that time is the rest of our lives - but it does eventually settle if you let it do its job. Take your time. Let yourself grieve.
I have not lost a parent yet, but I have lost many a dear person over the course of my life. I’ve had to grieve people who are still, for now, here with us, because I know they won’t be for long. Not long enough. Never long enough.
I find great solace in the thought that grief signifies that what we lost was precious to us. Loss is painful, because what we lost we loved deeply. I’ll add a tried and true quote about grief from Alfred Tennyson’s In Memoriam:
Grief comes in many forms and comes to everyone in different ways. The important thing is to not keep the emotions away, but to feel them. Grief is our way of accepting and, as to your question, dealing with loss. The bigger the loss, the keener the grief. There is no timetable, there is no plan. Grief works in mysterious ways and will take its time. Often that time is the rest of our lives - but it does eventually settle if you let it do its job. Take your time. Let yourself grieve.
I have not lost a parent yet, but I have lost many a dear person over the course of my life. I’ve had to grieve people who are still, for now, here with us, because I know they won’t be for long. Not long enough. Never long enough.
I find great solace in the thought that grief signifies that what we lost was precious to us. Loss is painful, because what we lost we loved deeply. I’ll add a tried and true quote about grief from Alfred Tennyson’s In Memoriam:
I’m sorry for your loss.