Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.

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The quote “Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim” shows how one should deal with grief. The ocean, as the author describes it, makes a person feel drowning.

When one is in that situation, it is easy to be overwhelmed. In that case, the only thing that the person can do is to keep calm. The feeling of drowning will eventually stop and the person will be able to move forward after a while.

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