There’s a John Green quote that cuts through all the noise around grief: “We all want to do something to mitigate the pain of loss or to turn grief into something positive, to find a silver lining in the clouds. But I believe there is real value in just standing there, being still, being sad.” If you’ve lost someone, you get it. Because we live in a world obsessed with fixing, solving, and brightening. When someone’s in pain, we reach for platitudes like band-aids. “Everything happens for a reas