When someone we love is taken from us

Sep 10, 2026 Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom

(Kaieteur News) – After my first encounter with the Guru, I had to probe for some more life lessons. I pressed Guru a much heavier question. “Guru,” I said, “how does one recover from losing someone one loves?”

He did not answer immediately. Perhaps there are some questions that deserve silence before words. I had lost someone close to me, and I had discovered what everyone eventually discovers: there is no preparing for the emptiness left behind when someone who has occupied a place in your life suddenly occupies a place only in your memories.