![]() ![]() ![]() The pain begins to diminish and a sense of normalcy will be restored. All sorts of pleasures and activities that he once took for granted will have to be simply written off.”Įssentially, one does ‘get over’ the loss. Bathing, dressing, sitting down and getting up again, even lying in bed, will all be different. There will be hardly any moment when he forgets it. “He has ‘got over it.’ But he will probably have recurrent pains in the stump all his life, and perhaps pretty bad ones and he will always be a one-legged man. As he went on to explain, the life following a loved one’s death, like the aftermath of an amputation, is forever changed. As I continued to read, I realized that Lewis’ metaphor was much more thought out. I read it as though Lewis was saying that when you lose someone, you lose a part of yourself, a part of yourself that you will never get back. Initially, I read this from the most obvious position. “The death of a beloved is an amputation.” While every passage is relatable for anyone who has experienced loss, one quote in particular stood out. The short book is a collection of Lewis’ notes on his journey with grief following the death of his mother from years before and the more recent death of his wife. I recently came across CS Lewis’ A Grief Observed and immediately thought how it was possible that I had never read it, or even heard of it, before. ![]()
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