Understanding the Meaning of Grief By Katherine Lightwood

Understanding the Meaning of Grief

By Katherine Lightwood 

A constant gnawing that feels like that you have rocks churning in the pit of your stomach. Absolute exhaustion after sleepless nights. Unpredictable and sometimes uncontrolled crying or being completely emotionless. Feeling so bad that you question whether you will ever feel better. 

If you ever feel this way then you are not alone. It doesn't matter where you live, work, how much money you have or how you vote. Man or women, adult or child when you lose someone important, you grieve.

Although we all grieve at one time or another, our individual grief experiences often differ. For one thing, there are many kinds of losses and the feeling each evokes are very different. Not only is someone's reaction to loss is very unique, their individual experiences matter too, how they manage grief. There's no magic wand to wave to make the pain go away. But we can gather knowledge to help understand how grief affects the way people think or behave.

I wonder why grief makes people feel as they do.
I remember a quote from Benjamin Franklin that,

"The only thing certain in life are death and taxes". 

But I think he forgot to include grief. And the fact is that grief is unavoidable too. Unless of course you never form emotional attachments to anyone or anything.

So what actually is grief...?
I think grief is one of those words that people don't really understand, look to find some easy way through it or some easy way out of it. But let me tell you, dear friend, there isn't one because whatever you don't deal with will come back one way or another.

Well!! grief is part of everybody's life from what I've understood and experienced. There's nobody who is spared from a good old introduction to grief or a relationship with grief and the other important thing to remember here, in this case, is don't think yourself that you are something special.

And you have the worst fate. Everyone is grieving in this world, and all of us has our fair share of pain. So, it's very normal if you feel grieving for any reason in your life. Therefore the lesson here is that be kind to others, have some empathy, and take the responsibility of your grief. Because only you can understand yourself.

So, that was my thought of the day. To see more posts like this make sure to visit our main page. And Do not forget to visit our institute's page to know more about graphic design, 3D, animation courses and other awesome stuff. Till then good day to you.

Katherine Lightwood