Dr. Lucy Kalanithi

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On Purpose with Jay Shetty · Lucy Kalanithi: What Loss Can Teach Us About Living (The Perspective Shift That Changes Everything) · 1 Jul 2026 podcast

So I don't believe that part, but I do believe, I do think time heals all wounds in a certain way.

Prince Harry was writing about grief and he said something like, grief is a wound that festers.

I was sort of like, oh, I don't agree with that because if something festers, it's like untended, right?

And so I do think like there will always be a scar.

There will always be something that looks different, feels different, right?

Something you're carrying, something you're literally carrying on your body.

Like that's also how grief feels.

I think if you can sort of think to yourself like it's going to be okay in some way, you just don't know what okay means and like sort of let the pain move through you, you will end up somewhere, you know, that's different and better than you thought.

Yeah, yeah, and some of them don't work, right?

Or you have to decide which ones work for you.

Like if someone sends you a card with something on it, or if someone says, you know, everything happens for a reason and you don't believe that, it's not helpful.

But you're right, I think many of those things in literature, sayings like that, hold up.

I don't subscribe to that necessarily, but I think more than I did before, I think when hard things happen, I do believe something beautiful will come out of it.

Something.

Even if the only thing that comes out of it is that you suffered, which connects you to every human being everywhere across time ever.

And then potentially deepens your empathy for other people or deepens your ability to be a friend or, you know, whatever it might be.

So, and then I think like,

Have you read Man's Search for Meaning?

He talks about witnessing all of these people and how they survived the unsurvivable.

And he ends up talking about like how purpose or relationships like you wouldn't survive just because you had those, but you could only survive if you had something you were waiting for or someone who was waiting for you on the other side.

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