An Observation made within Sam Spratt's "IX. The Monument Game" - To say grief passes with time is to speak as if you have never lost someone you thought you couldn’t live without. The heartache never truly goes away. The memories stay with you. The yearning desire to return to the past never leaves. You grow a thicker skin, form a new heart that is not easily broken, and allow your brain to dissociate to prevent further damage to your soul. That is how you live with everlasting agony. You learn to adapt. You learn to live alongside it, but never truly with it.