“Just Because We’re Not Talking, Doesn’t Mean I Don’t Miss You.”

Warning sign

I Cant Make You Love Me - Bonnie Raitt

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Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness

Bliss

“She can’t relate to other people. She was always a lonely child.”

‘waveshaping’

Good or not, grief is definitely another country. It makes no sense at all. You can smile through the funeral, crack a joke as you bury your loved one, and then, weeks later, catch sight of an Oreo cookie and start howling in public because you’ll never eat an Oreo with your father again. The Oreo cookie is more painful than the dead body. Marilyn French writes about this disconnect in The Women’s Room: “Rituals mark feelings, but feelings and events do not coincide. Feelings are large and spread over a lifetime.”

In Defense of Good Grief, Livemint  (via lastminutegenius)