Curiosities and Candid Musings

  We are born knowing and receiving love first but in the end, we die knowing more than just love- grief being one of them. None of these compound sentiments and emotions can be avoided and that is the price we pay for living. But when our own final day arrives, I hope that one carries back home more of the love received and less of the ones that hurt. Knowing well that a farewell to life will inevitably come one day, our aspirations in life should also include striving to rest more with love- on both Eternal Love and on the love shared with our brothers and sisters. From the moment a loved one dies, bereavement arrives unconsciously and it lingers around for a while. However in time, we gradually adapt to the absence; it fades as new friends or new love arrives, or we begin adjusting to the emptiness as we gradually allow others to occupy the void that has been created by loss. Grief, on the other hand, comes with a veil-unexpected, unannounced and quietly crept in. I lived a year...

Conversations I She : I have come to accept that there is never an ending to this feeling, you just get used to it. You begin to welcome it to this space between the love you had and the vacuum from the love that left unannounced. Hoping that it will fill the vacuum more, and leave the remnants of love untouched. He :... I don't know if it will make sense. But mourning or grief doesn't exactly have an endpoint, right? You just learn to live with the loss. Grief may not be continuous. It hits you in bouts over a long period of time with different intensities. But just like grief, love for that person occurs the same way.  She : Yet still, something is constant. At least for as long as I have been experiencing it. You feel like a ship lost afloat in the middle of the ocean amidst an infinite thunderstorm. Death is like...it’s like the anchor missing; the compass lost into the deep waters. You just accept and sail ahead, uncertain about where you will land ashore but knowing that ...