No one teaches you how to talk to someone when they’re grieving. It’s awkward. It’s uncomfortable.
You don’t want to make someone cry but you also don’t want them to think you’re being insensitive by not mentioning their loss. I get it, I’ve been there. But do you know what's even harder? Grieving.
When my lovely mum passed away in February of 2020, it hit me so hard. I didn’t know heartbreak was so physical, it felt like my heart had shattered into a million pieces and my whole world changed in an instant — I'd lost my anchor and my best friend. It's true what they say about grief changing you and in the months afterwards I found myself crying everywhere.
Whether I was on the train to work or in the supermarket, the tears just would keep on coming. I'm not alone though, Hollywood actor Andrew Garfield once spoke candidly about grief while on Stephen Colbert's late night talk show in 2021. Andrew shared how his tears were important, saying, "It's only a beautiful thing.
This is all the unexpressed love, right? The grief that will remain with us, you know, until we pass." His comments seriously resonated with the grieving community when he said: "We never get enough time with each other, right? No matter if someone lives to 60, 15, or 99. So I hope this grief stays with me because it's all the unexpressed love that I didn't get to tell her.
And I told her every day. We all told her every day. She was the best of us.
" Andrew recently teamed up with Elmo to tal.
