“Grief is not an enlightenment program for a select few. No one needs intense, life-changing, loss to become whoever they are “meant” to be. The universe is not causal in that way: you need to become something, so life gives you this horrible experience in order to make it happen.”

“Grief is not an enlightenment program for a select few. No one needs intense, life-changing, loss to become whoever they are “meant” to be. The universe is not causal in that way: you need to become something, so life gives you this horrible experience in order to make it happen.”

— Megan Devine