Do you ever stop grieving? Based my experience,I am really not sure that anyone ever stops
grieving. The way I look at it is the grief will always be with you (the bad news) , but it lessens
over time. (the good news)
Grief to me is like a blue balloon. Let me explain what I mean. At
first I was holding the balloon and had the string wrapped around my wrist, and
it went with me wherever I went. Eventually, with time, the string got longer
and longer and longer. One day I went out into the yard of my life and released
the balloon into the sky. The balloon, however, did not fly away immediately;
it hung around a while, kind of hovering near my head. The balloon gradually
started to gain altitude, and each day the balloon was little higher in the
sky. Until one day it was just a tiny azure speck in the sky. Some days I see
it,
and
it floats down lower. Some days I don't see it at all. Some days I open a
drawer and it is in there. It will never completely disappear, for I carry it
with me always.
I think grief is like that; it doesn't go away, you just learn
to live with it and move on with your life. I promise it is true.
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