HOW GRIEF CHANGES YOU.

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DEC 17, 2019

The things we experience in life change us. It can be for the better, or it can be for the worse.

Sometimes, probably most times, it’s a combination of better and worse. Different life scenarios can manifest the changes differently. Obviously a more severe life experience fundamentally changes who you were.

I wonder though.

Do people see that?

5 years from now will people around me think "since the passing of her friend she became so sensitive." Or instead, will they think “she is so unpredictable and moody.” Will people have forgotten that perhaps I became more open with my emotions after my friend passed? That things tug at my heart strings easier because of that experience?

I now wonder if I've been guilty of this?

Do I think this of people?

Forget what they’ve been through, and how it changed them. Think negatively of them?

It can be difficult to feel understood by those around you, as well as difficult to understand them.

We obviously can't live life trying to relate or understand everyone around us, but we can stop and think. Think about why someone may react or act a certain way.

That they maybe weren't always that way.

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