100 Days of Grief

"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things." -Rober Brault It's been really hard to try not to compare my grief to others.  I'm not sure why we do it but we always look at others and try to down play our feelings.  I'm not sure why we as humans do that but it's really destructive to our healing.  At least I think so.  But it's been interesting because every story I hear, I think "wow, theirs is way harder," and then I feel terrible that I'm writing or even that I'm complaining about what I've gone through.   But I know in my mind that you really can't compare grief or loss.  In my support group that is one of the first things they talked about was that you shouldn't compare your grief to others.  Loss is loss no matter when or how it happened.  I've known people that have had their babies and lost them hours later.  I've known people who have lost babie...