Loss
Grief isn’t bound by blood.
We often don't think about death until the day it confronts us, and then it seems senseless.
But how can it be… I was just talking to them… he had so much left to do… this isn’t real…
We're ill-prepared, adrift, and shattered. Trying to rationalise the sudden gone-ness of someone so familiar is baffling.
Our world is like a jigsaw puzzle made of the people we interact with daily. We realise its fragility only when we lose a piece, even if it's a small part.
Everything changes, and we must adapt to a different world.
We carry an invisible burden that chips away at us in ways unnoticed by others, except those who look closer and see the jagged gap left by that missing piece.
It doesn't matter how significant their role was; even the smallest character plays their part in holding our lives together.
The grief of loss isn’t reserved for family members only.
Some people in our lives have given more and had more of an impact than family ever can, and it’s that loss that hits the hardest.