Paige 66 Greif turns out to be a place…

Paige 66 Greif turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it. We might expect if the death is sudden to feel shock. We do not expect this shot to be obliterated, dislocating to both body and mind. In the version of grief, we imagine, the model will be healing. A certain forward movement will prevail. Nor can we know ahead of the fact, and he lies the heart of the difference between grief as we imagine it, and grief, as it is, the ending absence that follows, the void, the very opposite of meaning, the relentless succession of moments, during which we will confront the experience of meaninglessness itself

— from The Landing (Death) · Life is hard bykieran setiya

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Then there is grief — the turbulence none of us escapes, and the one I most want to prepare you for, because no one prepared me. Grief turns out to be a country you cannot know until you arrive in it; its first shock can dislocate both body and mind. Much of its torment is the endless reel of "what ifs," the things we torture ourselves imagining we might have done differently; much of it is the mind still reaching for a loved one by the old coordinates — here, now, close — that death has quietly erased. — The Landing (Death)

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