The article “The New Grief: How Modern Medicine Has Transformed Death and Grief” illustrates the changes on how people viewed death and dying due to the noteworthy advances in science, specifically in the medical field. This kind of grief allows individuals to come into terms with the inevitability of death, instilling a new reality that equips and welcomes them into an understanding people from the olden days refuse to acknowledge.
Although many tend to reject the idea entirely, this shift poses quite a lot of bearable things too, if not good. We learn how to put value in life a little bit more than we used to. We hug a bit tighter, hold a little longer, and do everything else in bigger proportions. Mourning gets complicated but mornings (and eventually nights) are spent better than the previous ones.
I used to hate it when people sugarcoat bad experiences and tag them as “blessings in disguise” just so they could make misfortunes look good. But then, after years of encountering such idiom, the attitude of looking at the bright side of things has caught on to me. It stayed even to this day. Without fail I have appreciated the simple things no matter how immensely small they are.
People should learn how to find the light in the darkest corners of their experiences. They should see and approach every situation in a new standpoint—one that is greatly outshone by faith and optimism.
So inasmuch as we cringe at the prospect of goodbyes—especially the long, hurtful, and expected ones—it will only lead us to an endless array of hellos. And what's better than that?
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