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Student @ Ahmadu Bello University Zaria
GRIEF
<p>Grief isn’t just one thing. It’s not a single emotion you pass through and leave behind; it’s a whole landscape. Some parts are soft. Some are brutal. Some are so quiet they almost feel like nothing… until they don’t.</p><p>The good part and yes, there is one—</p><p>is that grief is proof of love.</p><p>It means something mattered. Someone mattered. You felt deeply enough to be changed.</p><p>Grief keeps memories alive in strange, tender ways, a song that suddenly feels sacred, a smell that pulls you back into a moment you thought was gone, the way you start to carry pieces of them in how you speak, how you love, how you show up.</p><p>It’s heavy, but it’s also… connection that refused to die</p><p>The bad part is the weight of it.</p><p>How it lingers longer than people expect.</p><p>How the world moves on while you’re still trying to understand how everything shifted overnight.</p><p>It shows up at inconvenient times mid-laughter, mid-conversation, mid-life and suddenly you’re somewhere else entirely.</p><p>People tell you to “be strong,” but they don’t tell you how exhausting strength actually is.</p><p>And then there’s the ugly part.</p><p>The part nobody really talks about.</p><p><br/></p><p>The anger.</p><p>The guilt.</p><p>The “what ifs” that loop in your mind at 2am.</p><p>The moments you feel numb and wonder if something is wrong with you.</p><p>Or worse the moments you feel okay, and then feel guilty for that.</p><p><br/></p><p>Grief can make you question yourself.</p><p>It can make you feel isolated even in a room full of people.</p><p>It’s messy. It’s unpredictable. It doesn’t follow rules.</p><p>But here’s the truth beneath all of it:</p><p>Grief doesn’t mean you’re falling apart.</p><p>It means you’re adjusting to a world that changed without your permission.</p><p>And over time, not in a straight line, not neatly—</p><p>it softens. Not because the loss becomes smaller,</p><p>but because you slowly grow around it.</p><p><br/></p><p>You don’t “get over” grief.</p><p>You learn how to carry it… without it carrying you.</p><p>And somehow, in the middle of all that weight,</p><p>you’re still here.</p><p>That counts for more than you think.</p>
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