Grief, in Five Movements: Bargaining

Bargaining is the impossible negotiation with what can no longer be changed.

The mind revisits the past, searching for a different decision or a moment that might have altered everything.

We offer memories and even parts of ourselves, as though loss could be reversed through some secret exchange.

Perhaps bargaining is simply love refusing to accept that there is nothing left it can do.

Grief, in Five Movements | III. Bargaining