Grief Comes in Waves

As I’ve gotten older, I realize…

Grief comes in waves.

It never rarely if ever, comes all at once.

Throughout our life we have different kinds of grief.

The kind of grief where we mourn what was…

Or what could have been.

The sense of profound loss when we are unable to make new memories with those we love.

It brings profound sadness, but great joy as well.

Joy because we were able to make those memories and have those experiences.

Experience leaves us with loss.

For this is what it means to be human.

To be so privileged to love someone with such great love, that we feel the profound silence they leave in their wake.

Then when we wake, being able to somehow find our strength and figure out how to carry on.

…To be able to find others, with whom we can share this great loss.

Others, that we can empathize with that know of this kind of Joy, love, and loss… for it is through empathy we all are connected to each other.

We all are drawn and connected together because of Grief. Without it there would be no empathy.

Empathy for what each one of us experiences.

None of us escape Death nor loss.

Death and loss are the great equalizers of us all.

Grief comes in waves and none of us are able to escape it. Rarely does it come all at once.

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