Lucy Kalanithi: What Loss Can Teach Us About Living (The Perspective Shift That Changes Everything)

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Does Everything Happen for a Reason?

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The conversation turns to a psychological paradox: we tend to overlook the best in people while they're alive and idealize them after they're gone. Lucy notes Paul would have understood this from a neuroscientific perspective — it's encoded in how the brain processes grief and memory. She then addresses the saying 'time heals all wounds,' rejecting its suggestion that grief disappears but affirming that time does transform grief's texture. She contrasts her view with Prince Harry's image of grief as a festering wound, proposing instead that if you can let pain move through you rather than lock it up, you will arrive somewhere better than you expected — even if 'better' is unrecognizable from where you started.