It’s tempting to write everyone off—no one gets it. No one understands. Living in grief can feel like you’ve moved to an entirely different planet, or make you wish you could. It would be so great to be able to just transmit, without speaking, the reality of this loss in your life. To have people feel—just for thirty seconds—what it is you carry every second of every day. It would clear up so much misunderstanding. It would stop so much unhelpful “help” before it ever reached your ears. But we don’t have that. We have words, and descriptions, and endless attempts to be understood and to
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