“I’m so happy I’m still here. I’m so happy my life had faith in me.”
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Saeed Jones is Executive Editor of Culture at BuzzFeed. On a recent episode of The Tell Show, he shared a story about the months after his mother's death, when he traveled to Spain, looking for something to make him feel safe and whole again.
"When you're grief-struck, you're really looking for anything to make you feel safe again—to make you feel whole." —Saeed Jones
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In the episode, Jones talks about his transition from the first phase of grief—when he was busy answering calls, packing up his mom's apartment, making funeral arrangements—to the second. "It's the phase where everything's quiet and people aren't calling on you constantly to check on you. And you just have to deal. And I just didn't know what to do," he says. "My mother was the closest member of my family to me. We spoke every day. That was, perhaps, the most difficult experience with grief I will experience in my life."
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