on grief

‎- grief is a hole your world falls into. no one told you that, did they? but how could they? their words would have fallen in as well, and it will continue to do so for a very long time. your job is this; to remove yourself from the edge, to put down your outstretched arms, to stop being so angry with what you cannot understand right this moment - because it may be that you will never understand why. but perhaps there will come a day when you will walk around that hole, absentmindedly, admiring all that you have built, and it will surprise you how long it has been since anything else has fallen in. that is the day you must hope for. and it will come. you just need to be patient.