The hardest part of Grief
Grief leaves you stranded in the middle of the highway. You sit there, just staring into the distance, wondering which way is better. Forward feels terrifying. It's uncertain and unfamiliar. You don't know what life will look like without them or without what you lost. You don't know who you are now, or how to keep going when everything has changed. Going backward? That's even worse.
That means walking back into the heartbreak, the funeral, the moment everything broke. It means reopening the pain, replaying every memory, every goodbye, every silent scream. So you just sit there, stuck between what hurts and what's unknown.
That's the hardest part.