The Two Sides of Grief
I was asked last week about a moment of grief I was experiencing. I was asked:
Are you angry? Is there part of you that’s pissed off and saying, “why me?”
No, absolutely not. I can say that with unequivocal conviction. In fact, it’s absolutely the opposite: I feel a deep sense of gratitude for of having been fortunate and lucky.
Grief is a truly bitter-sweet feeling. I have hyphenated that word with intention. Bitter-sweet is not it’s own thing; like the ying and the yang it’s composed of two.
Is all grief bitter-sweet? I don’t know, but imagine so. If the sweetness weren’t there in the first place, then I’m not sure we’d grieve at all.
