Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.
~Sarah Dessen~
Max
Nobody ever prepares you for grief. And nobody ever learns how it feels unless you experience it.
It renders you speechless. It takes over your body, crams it and twists it like a small ball. It brings with it loneliness, and tears— uncontrollable tears that drip down your face like an overflowing stream on a rainy day. Sleep becomes a stranger because everything in your body is controlled by pain.
It's torturous. You walk around like a zombie wishing you could sleep and wake up when it's easier to wade through the emotions of anguish. But grief will not let you. It wants you to feel every second of torment. It's so diabolical it breaks some people into tiny pieces th