Reflections on grief

Grief is a funny thing. You can go through a period of time of thinking that you’re learning to live with a loss and then suddenly there’s a reminder – a song on the radio, a passing comment that triggers a memory and then wham! The realisation hits you once again and for a short while, all is pain. Then somehow, you once again find the strength to carry on with normal life again. Sometimes those moments of devastation come close together, sometimes many days apart. Gradually you start to accept the fact that life will never be the same again.