How easily we are numbed by routine. We wake up each morning expecting the world to be much like it always is, barely aware that one day we will awake to find that someone so close, so needed, in our lives is no longer there.
The sudden loss of a loved one is so devastating; the grief can seem unbearable. And yet, we are forced to bear it and — harder still — move on.
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