You are not at all too pitiable or too emotional.

Here is my thought as the editor of Growing Grief. People who have experienced grief need to write these stories. People who aren't in the middle of grief hesitate to read them. It's why I created a grief publication to give people a place to publish and a place to read when they are ready to.

The grief stories that gain traction are less about the specific individual that died or the loss of the person left behind but more about tapping into the universal loss we all experience. Even then the most hearthbreakingly beautiful writing often goes under read because we hate to deal with death.