The Loneliness of Grief The Untold Journey Beyond 30 Days, 25, Hardcore and At Ease #podcastclips

when people are grieving, they tend to lose people after a couple months. Everybody's gone. 30 days out from a death, everybody's gone and they're on their own and they're not done grieving yet. But what happens is instead of us willing to kind of, you know, the Bible says to rejoice with those who rejoice and mourn with those who mourn, to stay in that with them. I think sometimes we feel like we're going to catch it like a cold, and that grief is going to rub off on us. And it very well— catch the grief from someone else. Yeah, like kind of, well, it might happen to me next if I get too close to it. I, I really think that's how we view it, because all of a sudden we're super uncomfortable with grief that goes on any length of time, and we say, oh, that person needs to get over it. There's just this inherent thing in us as humans to stay away from the very thing that we know, that death comes to all men and women, and eventually we're all going to be faced with it. And I think none of us wants to face it that closely.