Why We Don’t Talk About Grief?

We talk a lot about growth - new jobs, new countries, new beginnings. We celebrate the courage it takes to start again, to reinvent ourselves, to move forward. But we rarely talk about what growth asks us to leave behind.

Grief isn’t only about losing someone we love. It’s the quiet ache that comes with every ending - the version of you that no longer fits, the dream that dissolved, the people and places that shaped you but couldn’t stay. Grief walks beside every transformation, whispering reminders of what once was.

When we move through change - a career shift, a breakup, a relocation - there’s always a part of us that tries to hold on. That’s the part seeking control. It’s the instinct to keep things familiar, even when we know it’s time to let go. But life has its own rhythm. Growth doesn’t come without surrender.

Letting go is rarely tidy. It’s raw and human. It asks us to open our hearts to the unknown - to welcome uncertainty, not as an enemy, but as a teacher. To let the ache be there without labelling it “bad” or “too much.” To feel the sorrow without rushing to fix it.

Because grief, at its core, is love with nowhere to go. It’s the echo of connection, the mark of meaning. The deeper the love, the deeper the grief. And the more capacity we have to grieve, the greater our capacity to live fully - to love again, to begin again.

What if we welcomed grief as a friend instead of fearing it?A friend who arrives uninvited, yes, but one who always tells the truth. Grief reminds us of our humanity, our tenderness, our courage to keep feeling even when it hurts.

Maybe the real invitation isn’t to move past grief, but to move with it - to give it space at the table, to listen to what it wants to say. It often speaks softly, in tears that rise without warning, in the silence between words, in the moments when we suddenly miss something we thought we’d outgrown.

The truth is, grief and growth walk hand in hand. Every ending carries the seed of a beginning. Every goodbye creates space for something new to arrive.

When we can meet grief with compassion - not judgment - we begin to see it differently. It’s not here to punish us. It’s here to remind us how deeply we’ve lived.

Take a moment to ask yourself: what is life inviting me to release?And can I let it go with love?

Because in the letting go, we create space - for renewal, for connection, for life to surprise us once again.