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

Mirabai spent her life loving Krishna so completely that when that love was tested—by family, by society, by her own heart breaking open—she didn't turn away. She went deeper. What I've learned from her is that meaning after loss isn't something you manufacture. It emerges when you stop trying to get back to who you were, and instead ask: what is this grief trying to teach me about what matters? Frankl called this the freedom to choose your attitude toward what happened. You can't change that they're gone. But you can ask what their absence reveals about how you want to live now. Some people find it in service—helping others who grieve. Some in creativity, in memory-keeping, in the relationships still in front of them. Mirabai's devotion didn't end when Krishna seemed absent; it transformed into something even more intimate. Start small: What did this person's life stand for? What did they see in you that you want to honor? That thread—followed with patience—often leads somewhere real. Not happiness, maybe. But purpose. And sometimes that's the only solid ground we get.