THE REALITY OF LOSS - By Megan Devine

Here is what I most want you to know – this really is as bad as you think

No matter what anyone else says, this sucks. What has happened can not be made right. What is lost can not be restored. There is no beauty here – inside this central fact.

Acknowledgement is everything.

You are in pain. It can’t be made better.

The reality of grief is far different from what others see from the outside. There is pain in the world that you cant be cheered out of.

You don’t need solutions. You don’t need to move on from your grief. You need someone to see your grief, to acknowledge it. 

You need someone to hold your hands while you stand there in blinking horror, staring at the hole that was your life.

Some things cannot be fixed. They can only be carried.

From the book ‘ It’s OK that you are not OK’ by Megan Devine