Grief

Grief is something that everyone will experience. You feel grief when people die. It works in strange ways. People express grief in different ways. But it's inevitable that you will feel grief for someone in your life when they die.

It makes you feel empty and broken inside. You miss the person who has passed away so much it aches. You cry until your eyes are sore. Sometimes you just want to be alone to cry. You might yell at other people, getting angry. You'd do anything to bring them back, anything at all. You know they're dead and it feels like a dream, like it can't be true. You try to find someone to blame, even if it's no ones fault. You want to stop feeling the pain. Everything starts to remind you of them, making the emptiness and pain you feel inside worse. This goes on for weeks.

You're going to feel grief throughout your whole life. People die all the time, there's nothing we can do about it. You just have to try to go on. People will tell you that it gets easier, that it hurts a little less as the days pass. But that's not true. It doesn't get easier, we just get used to the pain.

Claire