Book Review: A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis

In this book A Grief Observed by C. S. Lewis, he beautifully depicts such a raw look at his own grief over the death of this wife.  He takes you through a slew of emotions, rants, an insights.  It reads as rapidly as the mind speaks to ones self.  Without a long drawn out "how they met" or even a descriptive look at her last days, you still feel every bit of pain and despair Lewis felt.

"What is grief compared with physical pain?  Whatever fools may say the body can suffer twenty times more than the mind.  The mind has always some power of evasion.  At worst, the unbearable thought only comes back and back but the physical pain can be absolutely continuous" C.S. Lewis pg. 40 A Grief Observed

How he describes what grief truly feels is unlike anything I have ever heard.  You almost wish for physical pain because you know that eventually there will be an end.  But grief is of the mind, no matter how hard we try to evade our thoughts they come back to haunt us over and over again.

I could literally go line by line through this book and detail it out but I advise you to read it for yourself.  What you will take from this is that grief no matter what the form; death or betrayal in my experience, impacts your life greatly.  It takes us on an incredible journey of selfishness, despair, acceptance, you name it.  It can be a force that can make of break you.  Which will you choose?