DTH-XI-0010
“I lost a parent and the grief is bigger than I expected.”
Losing a parent is among the most significant losses a person experiences. It changes the fundamental structure of your world — the person who was there before you were born is gone. The size of your grief reflects the size of what you had. Give it its full weight. It earned that.
Your Practice
Write about one specific memory of your parent — a moment, a phrase they used, a thing they did that was purely them. Don't summarize them; recall one real scene. Then write one quality of theirs that lives in you. Grief and continuity exist together. That quality is yours now to carry forward.
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