Elena’s Reviews > The Scent of Light > Status Update

"Grieving is remembering. Remembering intensifies your sense of loss. When people tell you you will get over your grief, they are saying you will forget. That forgetting is condoned.
So I was thinking. I do not want my grief to go away. My father exists in my memory of him: not a selective memory but a whole remembrance. I want to entrap my grief in a place it will never escape from: here in this words."

I sometimes think life does not pass; it accumulates. You live in a certain wat and eventually your surroundings have got you like a puppet. Your identity is not you: it is what is expected of you.