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The Things No One Told Me About Grief

The past 6 and a half months have been full of experiences and emotions that I never expected or hoped to have. Grief is this weird thing you always hear about and maybe have learned about the different stages. Grief is something that seems like a textbook answer of how to be sad. It doesn't seem like a real thing that happens until it smacks you in the face and knocks you on the ground before you could comprehend what happened. I had been sad but I had never experienced sadness. As a happy person, I have always seen the glass as half full. Until one day there is suddenly no water in the glass at all. It's empty. You know the glass will be filled again someday but you are thirsty now. I wanted to share my experiences with an empty glass. Here's some things no one told me about grief: 1. GUILT - okay so maybe someone did tell me about this one but I didn't think that it was real. Why would someone feel guilty for an unexpected death that they literally had no con...