Growing Through Loss

Through loss, I gained the ability to truly empathize with anyone who has felt loss in a way that I couldn’t before. The pain allowed me to understand the feelings that come with losing someone close to you, and that no one should have to go through these feelings if preventable. Now when I remember that millions of kids have suffered (and will continue to suffer) the same pain as me simply because their parents can’t afford healthcare or because their dad was black and in the wrong place at the wrong time truly breaks my heart in a way that I couldn’t feel before. And to think that all this loss, whether it be through death, finances, or incarceration, could be avoided if those at the top stopped being so greedy, enrages me like nothing else. To think that millions of people lose their loved ones just for the short term profits of the already massively rich is so evil and cynical that I feel I cannot sit by and let it all happen. even though I can’t do as much as I would like to now, I know this understanding of loss and all the horror it brings will never leave me, and I will work to do whatever I can to equip myself to hopefully help solve these problems in the future. Through loss, I’ve felt the deepest, most confusing and frustrating pain I’ve ever felt. but, I’ve also come to understand myself and what I believe in in a way that I never have before. I’ve never been more sure of what’s right and wrong, and what I feel I should be doing in the world.