How to Live After Your Soulmate Has Died
“The past, present, and future are persistent illusions.”
In one of the episodes on the Big Think YouTube channel entitled "How to Live After Your Soulmate Has Died," Michelle Thaller, an astronomer and a widowed wife, discussed how life gives unexpected grief and how to live with it.
The only problem where she said that it is scary to go into such intense pain and not know how to get out, however, is that the only thing that she thought she could do to surpass it was to let it completely break her. And that's scary, to know when your life will turn upside down.
Losing a soulmate can be a devastating experience. Coping with the loss of a partner who was not only your lover but your best friend, confidant, and soulmate can seem unbearable. However, despite the pain and grief, Michelle Thaller said that it is possible to find a way to live a fulfilling life after your soulmate has died. The grieving process is unique to each individual and can involve a wide range of emotions, including sadness, anger, confusion, and loneliness.
During such difficult times, finding ways to cope and heal can be crucial for one’s well-being. In her case, she used the healing power of physics after losing a husband. Physics, as a field of science, may not have literal healing powers, but it can offer some perspectives and concepts that may help in the healing process after losing a loved one.
Michelle Thaller narrated how she found out that her husband’s brain was full of cancer. In one snap of a finger, she figured out that her husband is dying. I felt that feeling like the whole world was revolving around your back; Michelle felt like she was a ghost who was about to fall through the ground, wondering if she touched it, would her hand go right through it?
Loving means feeling needed. It takes commitment, dedication, and responsibility. And that is what Michelle did; she ought to hold her husband’s hand even when the universe is going to end. That’s the art of love; how one individual shows affection even in the afterlife.
The pain that Michelle Thaller got herself into woven her into a new person; however, every pain can leave a scar on our hearts that we will hold onto until our last breath. And living with it seems impossible, but I think that will teach us a lesson.
Everything is possible to conquer if you believe that everyone has the right to be happy.
A hundred years ago, Albert Einstein wrote a letter to his friend’s wife, He famously said that "The past, present, and future are persistent illusions." It meant that both the future and the past are unchangeable and will play out exactly as they were meant to. Thus, accepting the idea of time will result in a thorough comprehension of time and its connection to the universe.
The loss of a spouse might make it seem as though time has stopped, yet physics serves as a constant reminder that time is never still. Since time is a dimension that is continually flowing ahead, according to the theory of the space-time continuum, even while the pain of loss may be initially severe, with time it could become easier to deal with the loss and find new ways to move on.
