{"id":2231,"date":"2025-11-09T07:11:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T22:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bell-gardia.jp\/en\/?p=2231"},"modified":"2026-02-08T14:45:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T05:45:38","slug":"251109-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bell-gardia.jp\/en\/251109-1\/","title":{"rendered":"The Logic of Grief in Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When a person who usually thinks in a rational and logical way loses someone they love, or when they carry grief caused by some form of loss, their vitality often declines. In such moments, they may begin to perceive the world more through emotion than through reason, and tend to act based on feelings rather than strict logic.<\/p>\n<p>This may be because there is little sense of \u201csalvation\u201d or emotional relief within a system built entirely on flawless logic.<br \/>\nThe Wind Phone evokes ideas such as \u201cseeing what cannot be seen,\u201d \u201chearing what cannot be heard,\u201d and \u201cbeing able to connect anywhere because the line is not actually connected.\u201d These are not logical concepts, yet they allow people to feel that perhaps something impossible could still be true, or that something unrealistic might still be wished for. In this vagueness, people find dreams, hope, and comfort.<\/p>\n<p>However, this time, I would like to deliberately consider the sorrow of loss in a logical way, and explore a path toward renewal.<\/p>\n<p>The death of a loved one naturally brings sadness, because emotionally we do not want them to be gone. Between two people, there exists the idea of \u201crelational existence\u201d\u2014the sense that one\u2019s own self is supported by the presence of the other.<\/p>\n<p>From a logical perspective, to lose a loved one means that the meaning of one\u2019s \u201cself-existence\u201d is diminished, because human beings are, in many ways, sustained by others. Therefore, in order to heal grief, it may be necessary to build new forms of \u201crelational existence\u201d\u2014relationships in which one\u2019s own presence is acknowledged and understood by others.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, replacing a loved one with another person is extremely difficult, and it will not be easy. Yet, I believe there is no other path toward one\u2019s own recovery except to devote energy to forming new relationships.<\/p>\n<p>We do not live alone from the moment we are born. We live within relationships\u2014between people, and between ourselves and nature. How we create these relationships will determine what the next stage of life will look like.<\/p>\n<p>I believe that the severing of relationships may become the turning point between falling into depression and choosing to live a new life. Once we emotionally grasp, accept, and come to terms with what has happened, we must shift our thinking logically and connect it to the next step forward in life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a person who usually thinks in a rational and logical way loses someone they love, or when they carry grief caused by some form of loss, their vitality often declines. In such moments, they may begin to perceive the world more through emotion than through reason, and tend to act based on feelings rather &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bell-gardia.jp\/en\/251109-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Logic of Grief in Loss&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22,23,28,27,26,25,29,30,31,32,33],"class_list":["post-2231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-topics","tag-bell-gardia","tag-bell-gardia-kujirayama","tag-iwate","tag-japan","tag-the-phone-of-the-wind","tag-wind-phone","tag-29","tag-30","tag-31","tag-32","tag-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bell-gardia.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bell-gardia.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bell-gardia.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bell-gardia.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bell-gardia.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bell-gardia.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bell-gardia.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bell-gardia.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bell-gardia.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}