Your grief is something to be admired — the pain of severance. A scar where something used to be.

Simon Van Booy
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Your grief is something to be admired. The pain of severance. A scar where something used to be. When you lose someone very close to you, you may feel like you’re losing a part of yourself and that there is something missing.

But, the reality is that it’s not like that – it’s not like you’re losing a part of yourself – because we haven’t lost anything. There isn’t anything to miss, so why do we mourn the loss of it? If we could see past our grief and look at it as a scar on our lives, we might realize some things about ourselves and our journey through life. We may realize that we can move on from this and not be stuck in sadness or pain forever.

Source: Everything Beautiful Began After

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