Loss is not confined to people

The acuity of mental distress depends on perspective or the lack there of with degrees of grief only being understood after aging and experience. This is why children are so fragile and loss for them can be felt in anything. Being trapped is what happens when there isn’t adequate emotional support for them during this trial so the brain has to tuck it away to deal with the problem at a later date once they’re more able to. However, this may or may not happen depending on how willing the person is to care for themselves. Oftentimes it’s easier to leave this task to others especially if outside care is what you lacked as a child. We will always seek what we lack, but we will only have what we create.

Well said. I would just add that with loss, it’s possible to become trapped in the past by things that have been acknowledged and dealt with but for whatever reason not to the point of being able to unlock the cage.

I live with this every day.

This is why i do not stress over things that i cannot control. I leave the past in the past. I mourn it, grieve it, deal with it, and accept it and then i move on.

of course,the child is father to the man