How do I talk about my grief with people who haven't lost anyone close?

This is the loneliness that lives inside grief—you're in a different country now, and few people speak the language. The honest answer is: some people will never quite get it, and that's not failure on either side. It's just the gap between knowing and knowing. What helps is being clear about what you actually need. Sometimes you need someone to just sit with you in the quiet. Sometimes you need to name the specific weight you're carrying. Sometimes you need permission not to talk about it at all. The people worth keeping close are the ones who can say "I don't know what to say" without making it about them. And Mirabai knew this—her devotional poems spoke to those who could hear them. She didn't perform her grief for the unbelieving; she poured it into places where it would be held. You can do the same. Share carefully. Find your people—the ones who listen like prayer. And let the others be what they are: kind, but distant. That's not rejection. That's just the shape of this particular love.