CHAPTER 122
People have their own notions of grief. They thought of it as a sad time that is followed by the death of someone you love and you had to push through it to get to the other side.
But in reality, there is no other side, there is no pushing through, but rather, there is absorption and acceptance. Grief is not something you complete, but rather you endure.
Grief is not a task to finish and move on, but an element of yourself,
an alteration of your being, a new way of seeing, a new definition of self.
Ever watched a ripple effect before. Be it as simple as a time when
a finger was dipped in the center of a pool of water. Those rings and
circles that spread out around the surface of the water. Well, the way she saw it the finger represented the decision made at the time of a
