A Perspective Of Grief

This is a personal talk relaying my thoughts on grief and what the feelings that come along with it mean for me. Losing a loved one is a universal human passage that truly brings us a new understanding of love and what an impact someone can have in our lives.

Transcript

Grief is one of the most difficult human emotions to process and also discuss. This is a brief take of mine on grief, So I appreciate you listening to my perspective and I hope that it helps you process this emotion. It's heavy for me. I don't want to label it as heavy for you, But it's a heavy emotion for me. In my experience, Grief is the weight of missing someone, Someone that you loved or something that you loved so deeply that impacted your life, While also feeling that love for them that was a never-ending infinite pool of love that just came from within you, That was joyful, That you always expressed. Maybe not always, Actually, If we're going to be humans about this, But the loving and the missing and the weight of that missing typically clash against each other and that clashing is what creates an emotional turmoil, If you will, Some pain. It hurts. It hurts to miss someone. It hurts to miss someone that you love, So we get all torn up inside and sad and I think that's really normal. I think it's really normal to be upset and sad and disappointed and angry at these two emotions that you're having a hard time reconciling because losing someone or something that meant the world to you can be life-shattering. It can be life-shattering, So I just extend grace to myself and I hope that you can extend grace to yourself as well as you move through and try to process these emotions and give yourself the time. It can take years. It's taken me three years from losing a very close friend to even come to this perspective as to why I miss him so much, But it's the love and the absence of that person and being able to share experiences with that person that really truly create a tsunami of emotions that we can ride and that we don't have to be embarrassed about. We can express them to other loved ones, In a journal, To a therapist, Even just admit them to ourselves. I'd like to thank you for listening to this and I hope that it's helped you move through some of the difficult and painful emotions that arrive with grief and loss.

Reviews

thank you for honoring the honest, hard experience of grief. I felt the compassion in your voice that helped me feel seen so I can soften to grieving. 💖🙏