This morning, I have been chatting with a dear friend who is staying in NV working as a caregiver. She told me about her elderly patient who just passed away last May 11. She said that what happened really made her sad because she has been the main caregiver for two years. She is really hurting. She said that she feels that its like a relative who passed away.

I believe that grief is perhaps one of the most powerful of emotions a person can have. I think it is also one of the least understood. Grief is a myriad of emotions rolled into one: guilt, sadness, loss, fear, anxiety, bereavement, and others, depending upon (the state of) the grieving person. Mourning is just one of the ways grief is expressed. Crying is one way of expressing grief and mourning. Crying is a human response to pain but it helps in the cleansing and healing of a grieving person.

Grief can be postive or negative. Grief can help a person learn lessons about what happened and be more appreciative of the people around him or grief can make a person question and put blame on the people around him. Grief can answer unanswered questions or leave questions as questions without answers. Grief can heal or break a person. It can heal or break hearts, relationships, families. Grief can make a person stronger or it can make a person weaker.

Remember that death does not necessarily mean that the loved one is lost forever. Yes, people die but the love shared will not be destroyed nor lost nor forgotten. The love shared will forever be a part of who we are and nothing’s gonna change that, not even death.

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