Often it feels like I am breathing today only because a few years back I had no idea which nerve to cut...

Often it feels like I am breathing today only because a few years back I had no idea which nerve to cut...

She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it.

She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it.

He felt it deep, like a stone too big to heft out of the garden. He just had to how around it and make do.

Verily, a man should not cling to those who have passed, for he will likely neglect service to the living.

There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-

There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-

And thus we all are nighingThe truth we fear to know:Death will end our cryingFor friends that come and go.

And thus we all are nighingThe truth we fear to know:Death will end our cryingFor friends that come and go.

There is nothing to fear. Nothing to worry about. Grieve nothing in this transitory world," he says softly.

There is nothing to fear. Nothing to worry about. Grieve nothing in this transitory world," he says softly.

I hoped that grief was similar to the other emotions. That it would end, the way happiness did. Or laughter.

...grief is loved turned into an eternal missing. ...It can't be contained in hours or days or minutes.

Grieving the loss of a loved one—whether human or animal—is not only permissible, it is essential.