Day 65: “It’s bigger than you.”
Elizabeth Gilbert’s words on grief after losing her beloved partner come to mind, especially for those in the first days, weeks and months after a loss.
Grief is bigger than us, until we find a place for it to live in us. Grief is its own entity, with its own landscape, begging us to feel, assuring us that we won’t forget and that our love meant something.
No one wants to grieve. And yet resisting it never seems to work for very long.
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