Not every loss teaches a lesson. Some just hurt. You don’t have to find a silver lining to move forward.

The pressure to extract something useful from every hard thing becomes its own weight, piled on top of the hard thing. Some losses carry no lesson. They simply hurt, and nothing is wrong with you if no insight ever arrives. You are allowed to keep going without having made it mean something.

If you are hunting for a bright side right now and finding none, you can stop looking. Doing the ordinary things, with somebody keeping you company while you do them, is enough for this week.