Narrative Essay On Grief

Grief has been both my downfall and my saving grace. No one knows how to grieve properly or correctly, but the one thing I learned from grieving at a very young age, is that grief is love; specifically, unconditional love. This unconditional love towards someone (or in my case, many people) pours out as a sign of loneliness and yearning just to hold them and hug them one final time. I understand that losing people is a part of life and can’t be avoided, but growing up, I thought my world had turned upside down when I lost the two most important people to me. Three weeks prior to my tenth birthday, my Nana passed away from Alzheimer’s Disease. My family and I knew she was deteriorating physically, emotionally and especially mentally. Therefore, …show more content…
That unconditional love I have for them has never and will never be broken and even though that was one of the darkest and one of the most painful times of my life, I am glad I got to experience that today. I am blessed to have shared memories with them and all of the people I have lost in my life. Sure, death is inevitable, but what both death and grief have not broken in my life is my faith and my love for others. I get to help those in my life who are grieving because of what I went through. I have the opportunity to help those grieving at wakes and funerals with simply a hug or by sharing a positive memory of the person who they lost. I am blessed to support my friends and my family who have lost loved ones. Sympathy and empathy has played a big role in helping those close to me. So, through the path of childhood, I experienced grief. But as I moved into my teenage years, I realized something; what once had consumed my life, changed my life forever. I have grief to thank for helping me become stronger emotionally and spiritually. I have had the opportunity to support those who have lost loved ones thanks to grief and most importantly, I have grown into the young man I am