Learning to Live with Loss
December 18, 2019
"It’s not a question of getting over it or healing. No; it’s a question of learning to live with this transformation."
From Meghan O'Rourke's magnificent meditation on the messiness of mourning and how we learn to live with loss:
It’s not a question of getting over it or healing. No; it’s a question of learning to live with this transformation. For the loss is transformative, in good ways and bad, a tangle of change that cannot be threaded into the usual narrative spools. It is too central for that. It’s not an emergence from the cocoon, but a tree growing around an obstruction.
See more [here][2] – an enlivening read for everyone who has ever lost a loved one or ever will, which is pretty much all of us.
[2]: http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/06/09/meghan-o-rourke-the-long-goodbye/
