Blog11-Grief
This week’s reading discussed the grieving process individuals in later life usually go through however I found it to be very beneficial and applied to anyone who has experienced the loss of a loved one, friend or colleague, or experienced a trauma that has changed their life. It is said that the grieving process gives us time to reflect and find new strength that enables us to continue life’s journey and regain peace-of-mind which I believe is very true. I am going to stray off course here and discuss the grieving process as it pertains to the loss of a relationship such as divorce or the ending of a relationship. I believe this is much harder to deal with because the person is still alive and breathing but you are expected to just let it go and continue your life as though they are no longer alive. At least with the physical death of an individual you have some type of closure.
Many of us have at this stage in our life experienced a traumatic event that has altered how we see life. For most of us and those reading it’s usually the loss of a relationship with an individual we have loved and for those of you who have not consider yourself lucky. I have suffered from a failed relationship and as I sit here and write this I think back and wonder what I could have done differently to deal with the loss. Loosing someone that you care about can turn your whole world upside down and trigger all sorts of painful and unsettling feelings. You lose dreams you once had and commitments that you thought would never end and this causes profound disappointment, stress, and grief. You begin to ask yourself what your life will be like without your partner and will you find someone else or will you end up alone. Facing these unknowns can often seem worse than an unhappy relationship. It is often said that time heals all wounds but at this point I’m not sure I’m the right person to ask if that is true.