It isn’t photography related, but this has been on my heart for a while.
“Grief only exists where love first lived”
Quote by: Franchesca Cox
When loss happens, you feel like you’ve shattered into a billion broken pieces, and grief is like an incomplete puzzle.
In the early stages of grief, it looks a lot like a hot mess. Your heart cracks wide open. Those puzzle pieces of life –the ones that used to be familiar, whole, and your comfortable existence–are just scattered, rearranged and tossed about. It’s hard to make sense of anything.
The path of grief is unpredictable, and it can feel like you are picking through a wreckage, trying to recover anything that feels familiar as you try to put your life back together again.
It takes a while to find the pieces of yourself and life, only to find they don’t fit together as they once did. Sometimes the pieces are lost forever and may be never found again. At that point, it’s jumbled, confusing, overwhelming and frustrating because you are trying to put the puzzle back together with missing pieces.
Eventually, you learn to live with missing pieces. Be patient with yourself as you try to rebuild and sift through what was and what will be. Grief doesn’t go completely away. It can show up months and even years later. Even when you feel somewhat restored, cracks still remain. It is even possible to uncover a piece you couldn’t find once. A piece that is made of joy and happiness that fits alongside your grief.
Remember: just doing one piece at a time works. There is no particular order when it comes to your unique and individual healing and rebuild.
