I wanted to know how others experience grief.

I wanted to know how others experience grief.

Grief is losing, grief is losing love, friendship, support.
Grief is having fear, grief is having anger.
Grief is having a deep hole in your chest.

You want to be alone, but at the same time you want to have someone around you. It depends from time to time.

Nothing can prepare you of grieving yourself. Grief is different for everyone.
Nevertheless, grieving can be shared with others who are also going through it.

I loved how Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie describes her beloved father and the relation she had with her father in this short memoir.

"Never again. It feels as if I wake up only to sink and sink. In those moments, I am sure I do not ever want to face the world again."

I know her from her TED talks about The Danger of A Single Story, and her talk and her book We Should All Be Feminists, and her essay Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions. She is a great speaker and writer. Americanah and her other books are still on my 'wish to read' list.