Inner Journey with Greg Friedman welcomes Trinette Faint

Grief is a funny little beast.

I've heard it described all kinds of ways.

I've heard Elizabeth Kubler-Ross talk about the processes of grief.

For me, and I don't know if I made this up myself or if I just picked this up somewhere, but to me, grief is love that just doesn't have the same way to express itself.

And I could tell you that I am grieving deeply right now.

And I'm sad.

And I'm really sad because, you know, I saw something by Don Miguel Ruiz.

And he said, death is not the biggest fear we have.

Our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive.

You know, when you extend that invitation, first to yourself, oh my God, it's glorious.

And then when you think you have somebody that is willing to go on that ride with you, capable of going on that ride with you, and is interested in going on that ride with you, And they say that you are the best man that they've ever known.

And still find a list of reasons to exist rather than live.

To choose the sidelines.

To choose fear over love.

I don't know if it's more heartbreaking in the macrocosm or the microcosm, but it's definitely heartbreaking.

It's one of the things that from the time I was a little, little kid, I'd walk down the street and I...

I was really blessed because I could look into somebody's eyes and see them.

And I was shocked at how many grown women, grown men would avert their eyes, look away, choose not to be seen, choose not to make contact, choose not to say hello, choose to exist, choose not to live.

rather than live, rather than love, rather than express themselves.

And it broke my heart then, and it's been breaking my heart for my entire life.

And so I don't know if...

I'm grieving a person or an energy that I just keep going in circles with.

And at the end of the day, it comes down to this.

One word.

One word alone.