Time limit

From Ladies Pass it On

IF YOU THINK GRIEF HAS A TIME LIMIT,

you have likely never lost a piece of your heart.

If you think that the days, months, and years will

somehow erase the extent of the loss, then you have

never been unlucky enough to lose a love.

You are blessed, my friend.

For life without that piece of you, is a new life indeed.

It is a new world when the person you miss is no longer

here.

Everything looks different and will never look the same

again.

Every day is a mountain to climb, battling the waves of 

emotion, when a song plays, a smell reminds or a

memory rears.

And that never lessens, we only become more accustomed to

handling it.

To hiding it.

You may think time is healing the hurt, then you enter a 

new phase of your life; a relationship, a child, a

grandchild, a new opportunity, and you realise you

cannot share that with your missing part.

The waves bear down fresh, as they were on the very

first day.

If you think grief has a time limit, my friend, you have

never lost a piece of your heart.

And for that, you should be truly grateful.

Let the grieving grieve for as long as they must, and if

you want to help, love them more.

Love is the only way.

~Donna Ashworth