Mar Kae Sandhu

Before grief comes the reality – the reality that they're gone. Completely unreachable, with the future confirming you’ll never hug them again. You will learn to accept that they were never truly yours, at least not to keep. You will quickly discover how the world continues to move on. Sooner or later, you'll have to swallow the hard truth that, although their heart has stopped beating, yours has to continue. Broken, damaged, and shattered, it still beats. And if you want to know something that no one tells you about grief? It's a lifelong sentence, not an option. But one thing I have learned to find beauty in is that grief only exists where true love was first, and to me, that speaks volumes.