Re: The Weight Of Grief

luvmybeetle · ‎08-10-2013

Wow! This is a perfect picture of grief. The weight of your body feels like stones pressing on you and weighing you down making it hard for you to rise up and be joyful. Thank you for posting this. Joy to all and be safe.

KBEANS · ‎06-08-2020

The depiction is spot on. The weight of grief dragging you down, the pain bringing you to your knees. The wretching in your stomach. It's so bad. I let out this awful sound, and don't even realize I do it. Maybe it's a release, I don't know.

@Greeneyedlady21 Thank you for this!

You are so right about the weight we carry due to others not understanding, or telling us to move on. I may never move on, but I may inch forward, at my pace, not theirs. This pandemic came in and interrupted my grief.

There is a website called "what's your grief" if anyone is interested.

Anonymous032819 · ‎03-29-2019

On the day that my dad died, my heart literally, physically hurt.

I had never felt such intense pain as when he passed.

I cried harder for him, than I did for my mom, and I loved my mom!

My dad was my last parent.

I knew that the end was near for my dad, but to get the call, it still came as a shock.

For the longest time, it felt like I was trying to walk through knee deep thick sludge.

Grief sucks.

The Sky looks different when you have someone you love up there.

pprmntstx · ‎12-15-2017

@KBEANS Well said.

Quantum · ‎06-10-2015

Some come after and go before. The weight is still heavy after over 28 years. Sometimes that makes it very hard to go on with our trip, and even though we do, something is always missing.

But, I agree, there is the joy of smiling about our time together.

The art posted by the OP is very powerful.

haddon9 · ‎03-09-2010

@jeanlake wrote:
Powerful art

Yes it certainly is!

qvcaddition · ‎03-10-2010

@Miss Pepsi

@Miss Pepsi wrote:
i have felt exactly like this every day since my husband died. That picture makes perfect sense to me.

I,m so sorry. Eighteen years ago, two in my family died the same week in my house. One week after the other. It was devastating and took a few years to have some grief relief. I made myself do things I didn,t have time before, because now I was alone. Hard, but you didn,t die, so I hope you will eventually will have peace and live again, but remember happy times with him.

Miss Pepsi · ‎06-24-2019

@qvcaddition wrote:
@Miss Pepsi
@Miss Pepsi wrote:
i have felt exactly like this every day since my husband died. That picture makes perfect sense to me.

I,m so sorry. Eighteen years ago, two in my family died the same week in my house. One week after the other. It was devastating and took a few years to have some grief relief. I made myself do things I didn,t have time before, because now I was alone. Hard, but you didn,t die, so I hope you will eventually will have peace and live again, but remember happy times with him.

Thank you, he died unexpectedly in September. We were married for 40 years and I have days where I am totally paralyzed. I miss him and think about him every second of every hour of every day.

Witchy Woman · ‎03-15-2010

And all who have experienced grief. I really believe this.

“There will come a day, I promise you, when the thought of your son, or daughter, or your wife or your husband, brings a smile to your lips before it brings a tear to your eye. It will happen. My prayer for you is that day will come sooner than later.”