DTH-XI-0006
“I keep thinking about a loss from years ago that still hurts.”
Old grief that resurfaces is not a sign of failure. It is a sign that the loss was real and the person mattered. Some griefs are not resolved once, they are returned to at different depths as you change. The question is whether returning to it is part of living, or whether it has become a place you live permanently.
Your Practice
Write one honest paragraph about this person or loss: what they meant to you, what you still carry from them, and what in that is worth keeping. Then write one sentence committing to how you will carry that forward, not as grief, but as something they gave you. Name it. Keep it.
The Architects
“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.”
Khalil Gibran, The Prophet (1923), On Joy and Sorrow