Part of Life

"Grief"

There is nothing like the true sadness and the epitome of inner disruption known as grief.

Dealing with it can be the hardest thing people must do in their lives.

It is truly unimaginable to those who have not experienced it.

One can act somber at a funeral for a distant relative, and one can morn for the loss of an unknown teen in a car accident involving a drunk driver.

But quickly the incident floats from your mind. You go on living, and you soon assimilate it into your life, because loss, like anything else, is a part of life.

And you see those who were close to the ones lost. You see their tears, and you wonder, why do I not feel this way?

It is because what they feel is grief. Not just sadness.

Grief consumes you, like a mass of air pressing in and around you, until all you feel is an oppressive wave of nothing.

Emptiness is left. If that makes sense.

The emptiness, it feels, stems from the loss.

Whether it be trust, life, limb, or opportunity that is destroyed, the emptiness is apparent, and it does not go away easily.

Alone, in one's pain, so it seems, one stumbles through each day until sleep takes them, haunted by something that will not go away.

Cannot go away.

For all those who feel as the world feels, my deepest sympathies.

To me, Life is like a novel. It is long, sometimes incredibly boring, and full of love, loss, and conflict. However, it isn't over until the final page, on which always lies a happy ending.