When my father passed unexpectedly, I was despondent. One thing I remember was the Amazon lovebomb I got from my high school girlfriend Sunaina Sondhi, five books to help me deal with the pain. Even a decade after we dated, books were her love language; in fact, she had given me my very first book about meditation when we were teenagers. I don’t recall what all the books were, but the two that really made a difference for me were Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’s and David Kessler’s posthumous book On Grief and Grieving, and the Tibetan Book of Living and Dying. Each allowed me to process and understand the emotions I was going through.
Thanks for sharing the book link…I totally understand and will love to have these book in my collection.
Thank you for sharing such a personal experience, Matt. It’s moving to see how books can provide comfort and guidance during life’s most difficult moments. On Grief and Grieving and The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying are both profound works, and your reflection is a reminder of how words and wisdom can help us process pain and find meaning. I’ll be adding these to my reading list.
Thanks for sharing the book link…
“Better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that the end of all men; and the living will lay to his heart.” Ecclesiastes 7:2