Beautiful Ugly

by Alice Feeney

Some people think hiding their grief will make it go away, but in my experience it only makes it hurt more. Grief is only ever yours; it’s not something you can share,

Grief is a patient thief and steals far more than people who have never known it realize.

“People rarely know what they have until they lose it. They spend their lives searching for a better one, wanting more, needing more, blind to the fact that they already had it all. I think sometimes it’s only when something gets taken from a person that they appreciate what they had.

It felt like the end of my world, but I soon learned that the rest of the world goes on spinning with or without you.

The three basic fundamental fears that all humans experience are: Fear of death. Fear of abandonment. Fear of failure.