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How philosophy fails in the face of grief

I understand the impermanence of emotions intellectually but when I am heartbroken it feels like it will never end

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Abstract wisdom about the temporary nature of experience cannot penetrate the timeless quality of acute emotional pain.

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