Grief is one of the biggest mountains you’ll ever have to climb.
Not least, because it’s one that you absolutely won’t want to.
And people may talk of ‘getting over it’.
But the truth is,
I don’t think we ever do.
And that’s not to say that we don’t end up on the other side of the mountain. I’m not saying that we’re stuck in one place forever.
But, rather than getting over it…
Perhaps we find a cave we can walk through which brings us out on the other side. It may be dark and dim and difficult, but we make it through into the light.
Perhaps we find a path around the mountain that leads to the other side. It may take a long time and it might be unsteady and precarious, but we make it round.
Or perhaps we just slowly edge our way past. A little up, a little through, a little round. Step by step.
No, I don’t think we get over it. It is too big, too overwhelming.
Too insurmountable.
So instead we get through it.
Round it.
Or quite possibly,
we just get by.
~ Becky Hemsley 2022
