Grief and Peace

Death comes to all of us. Death has many forms. Too often we only think of one form: the day the heart stops beating in us or in the person who is dear to us. We rarely think the end of a romance, a love, a marriage as death in disguise, but it is and sometimes it gives rise to more intense grief than the loss of a life. You once grieved and you grieved for an awfully long time for a romanticized love and then an infatuation. Now looking back, the grieving process was your way of saying goodbye to a long adolescence and idealism. You don't love them anymore. They now seem too small, too common, too predictable. They are not like you at all. So you stop loving them and the grieving period is over.