David Kessler

And I think people think acceptance means you like it or you're okay with it, but it really just means you acknowledge the reality of it.

Because I understand that freedom is found in reality.

And I have to live in reality.

And sometimes when you're in grief, when you're in the breakup, the divorce, the death, that reality is brutal for a long time.

And you have to be in it and go through it.

And then you will begin to see little lights of acceptance.

You might just get through an hour.

And little by little, you let that grow and realizing you're going to hate it.

It's never the life you want.

You know, grief rips us off of this road that we were on with this person and puts us on a new road that we don't know how to travel down.

And why would you want to accept that new road or them dying?

But little by little,

We just allow it and sit in it, and it will begin to move through us.

And that's why, for me, I often thought acceptance isn't enough.

The journey can't end here.

There's a finality that we never wanted.

And so I thought there has to be more.

And that's really what led me to research meaning.

I wanted to find meaning that my son lived.

I wanted to find meaning that all these people have died.