How do I find meaning after losing someone I loved deeply?

Mirabai spent her life loving Krishna so completely that when separation came—whether through circumstance or longing—it became the very thing that deepened her. She didn't skip over the grief to find meaning. She lived inside it. Meaning after devastating loss isn't something you discover on the other side of pain, waiting like a prize. It emerges *through* the work of feeling fully, of asking hard questions about what that person meant to you, what they changed in you, what they left unfinished in your own becoming. Start there: What did this person teach you about yourself? Not their accomplishments or what they meant to others—what did they reveal about your own capacity to love, to be seen, to matter? That's where meaning lives. In how they altered the shape of your heart. The examined heart—the one that looks honestly at grief instead of away—finds something worth holding: not that the loss was good, but that the love was real. That realness can become a ground to stand on. You might volunteer with people who understand this loss. You might create something. You might simply choose, each day, to honor what they gave you by living with more intention. The meaning isn't found. It's made, slowly, by you.