The Theme Of Love Is The Instigator Of Loss

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Love is the instigator of loss and the healer of pain. Without love, loss can not exist. We love our family, our friends, our significant other and those important to us. Love is considered the basis of life. We trust and rely on the ones we love for support. Love is what heals and brings light in the dark. It gives us comfort, warmth and a sense of belonging. When love is taken away, emptiness and sadness fill its place. This feeling is loss. It’s the feeling of living without someone that filled us with joy and happiness. All people deal with loss in different ways, but initially it’s all the same idea, and it always branches from love. One doesn’t miss something that they don’t feel attached too. How could we live without a person or people …show more content…

The bitterness, is loss and all of the negative emotions that go with it. The sweetness is being healed and content.

When a person you love leaves, at first you are felt with many negative emotions. Anger, sadness, confusion. Loss is a negative and positive thing. It hurts and scares us, but it also teaches us the value of life and that we don’t realize how much we truly care about someone, until they are gone. When the clouds clear and the skies are blue again, the pain has healed and one is left with gratitude and peace knowing what love has taught them. In order for a person to heal, they need love from the people around them and at least the memory of love for the person they have lost. In Night, Elie Wiesel lost his mother, sister, and later on his father in a very brutal way. There is a big …show more content…

We care so much about the people we love and living without their presence leaves us empty. An article from the Seattle Times explores why death makes us so sad. An excerpt from it is, “Our loved ones play important roles in our daily lives, and their deaths leave gaping holes. Often, we want more time with them — more joy, more laughter, more healing — and death makes those hopes impossible to fulfill. We remember our good times with the deceased, knowing that they are now over” (Glickman). Just as stated before, we want more time and readiness for ourselves. It is much easier to heal when we are given the time to do so and the much deserved goodbye that helps us move

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