There's nothing nice about grief. It's an emotion we feel at least once in our life. Sometimes it almost seems like we're paralyzed from it. It's hard to carry on and go about our regular life. It can cause health problems, cut down on productivity, and make a person lose their joy of life. Sometimes grief can make you aware of who your true friends are. Those people who will help you overcome your feeling of helplessness. It always takes some time to initially recover but usually it takes a long time to feel like you'll make it.

It all depends who you were grieving for, how close you were in the relationship and who's left when someone passes. If it's someone very close to you it's going to take a longer time than an acquaintance. That empty feeling doesn't go away if that's the only person in your life that you can really count on.

My mother passed recently and it's very hard to get by. I have a wonderful husband who helps get me through each day. I have problems at night missing her and sometimes I wake up and I cry for her. Her and I were very close. My dad passed when I was going through a divorce and I moved in with my mom. We helped each other get over our grief. Yes, when you divorce you experience grief. Unless you really are glad they're gone. But even then you feel a separation that makes you grieve. You lost someone dear in your life and might never have that longing feeling again.

Getting over grief is hard to do. See a counselor, go for walks, keep busy with friends, start a hobby, join a club or group. Hopefully, you'll have someone in your life to talk it over. You should be grateful for the people left in your life and enjoy being around them. That'll help you get through. Grief will still be there at times when you hear that person's song on the radio, pass by their place of residence, see their picture and think of them, and go to a familiar place where you both have been.