Accepting loss is not easy.

When we lose someone we love, it changes us.

One of the hardest things for me was to accept things had permanently changed and there was no going back.

Adjusting to being without the beloved one, was one of many transitions.
I felt powerless, paralyzed, hopeless and completely inadequate to deal with this change.

After repeating these cycles, which often left me exhausted, I understood there will never be a substitute for him or her.

I had to learn to live with it and finally accepted: the loss of someone we love deeply is a transition, not a disappearance.