The Waiting Room

by Emily Bleeker

You eventually learn to live with the pain. That’s what grief is—living with pain. Time doesn’t heal all wounds; it just builds up your resistance.”

“The fact that you are trying so hard to organize and work on your own chaos shows me you are one of the best to sit in my waiting room, cry into my tissues, and rest in your very own special chair. Pains and struggles are not comparable. I don’t have some measuring stick I take out when you leave to see who has the most heartbreaking story. You get to feel what you feel, Veronica. And then we work on what we can control.