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“I lost someone and I can't function.”
Grief is not a detour from life — it is part of it. Give it its full weight. Don't rush past it, and don't let it become a permanent address. You can honor the loss and still move. Both are required.
Your Practice
Set a timer for 20 minutes. Sit somewhere quiet, let the grief move through you without distraction — no phone, no noise. Cry if you need to. Then, when the timer ends, do one small thing: drink a glass of water, step outside, write one sentence about the person you lost. Not to move on — just to move.
The Architects
“Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourself.”
— Epictetus, Epictetus, Discourses III.22 (On the Calling of a Cynic), Matheson translation