Good Grief

~ Gottfried

The trouble with quotes about death is that 99.9% of them are made by people who are still alive. Grief will always surprise you. Just when you think you have no tears left to cry, you unlock another tank. Sometimes grief surfaces in tears, other times in anger and apologies. 

I’m not afraid of death, I just don’t want to be there when it happens. With grief, it could be the smallest trigger. A similar laugh, a song, a place you drive by, and in an instant it feels like you are flung into a time machine and transported back to the moment. When time stood still. 

Grief is a funny thing because you don’t have to carry it with you for the rest of your life. After a bit you set it down by the roadside and walk on and leave it. I wish I could take your pain away and give it to someone that works in the federal government. They deserve it. 

The irony of grief is that the person you need to talk to about how you feel is the person who is no longer there. Grief, I now understand is a sort of madness, in the same way that falling in love is madness. Goodbyes are not forever. They simply mean I miss you until we see again. 

The dark humor that we acquire after a loss is my favorite things about grieving. It makes people uncomfortable yet it makes me happy. Make the jokes. They have literal healing power. Rang my guy who lost his dad and hit him with, ‘So you finally killed him!’

Move towards laughter. When you hear it, see what’s funny so you can laugh too. Grief never ends. But it changes its passage. It’s a passage, not a place to stay. Grief is not a sign of weakness, nor a lack of faith. It is simply the price of love. Some people shine so brightly…

They can never be forgotten

©️ Gottfried. All rights reserved

34 thoughts on “Good Grief”

  1. “Good Grief” Attributed
    to ‘Lucy’ in Regard to

    ‘Charlie Brown’

    Always Stepping
    in ‘It AS Such Mr Gottfried

    Yet to Materially Reduce
    Grief in Human Form Now

    Grief Still Is related to Drops
    In the Love Hormone Oxytocin
    And Serotonin For Trust of Existence

    While Dopamine Rises to Motivate Us

    to Connect to Others New True Ancestrally

    Real For Basic Survival as We Didn’t Always
    Have Modernity
    And Technology
    To Prop Us Up Alone

    Yet Yes the Extending
    Grief of Unrequited Love

    A Poet’s Dream of DarK Muse

    Where Some of the Most Soul

    Touching Poetry in the DarK

    Originates as Well as

    Van Gogh Paintings

    Perhaps After An Ear

    Is Cut-Off

    As Such

    Anyway Grief
    Serves As A Valuable
    Dark Muse Bitter Sweet
    To Motivate Change for

    The Social Animal Human to Survive

    Or Modernly i Guess Someone Could
    Play ‘Candy Crush’ at the

    Bus Stop For Endless
    Dopamine Hits

    And The
    Next
    Van
    Gogh
    Or Other
    Art Would Never
    Be Painted And
    Or Written Like ‘War and Peace’..:)

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