Grief
Why do people cry or grieve over one's death? Why do we miss them when we are aware of the fact that everyone dies? Why do we empathize over the permanent absence of somebody you once knew? It could've been somebody you rarely knew, or someone you met in a library, someone who worked at the grocery store and would tell you to forget about paying the extra cash that you didn't have the change for, someone you spoke to about your feelings for your crush, someone you spoke to for the first time and just clicked, someone you shared the kind of friendship which later leaves you wondering "what if" you'd known them longer, better and understood them because you feel like you somehow related to them at one point. It could've been someone you spoke to only once in your life about what time it was then, someone you only shared quiet smiles and genuine glances with but never really spoke much, yet your eyes did meet with theirs and so did your attention along w...