How do I stop feeling guilty about moving forward after losing someone?

Mirabai knew something about this. She loved Krishna so fiercely that when he was gone from her life, the grief didn't soften—it deepened into something else: a kind of devotion to the absence itself. But she also kept dancing. She kept singing. And I think that's what she'd tell you: moving forward isn't betrayal. It's how love stays alive. Guilt after loss is real. It whispers that joy means you didn't love enough, or that forgetting means you're letting them down. But grief and forward motion aren't opposites. They live together. You can miss someone terribly and still laugh at dinner. You can honor their memory and make new memories. You can carry them and grow. Mirabai's examined heart—that's the practice here. Notice the guilt when it comes. Ask it what it's protecting. Sometimes it's protecting love itself. But love doesn't need protection through stillness. Love needs you alive, present, willing to feel both the old ache and the new light. Move forward not despite the loss, but because of what it taught you about what matters. That's not betrayal. That's wisdom.