I'm working on a children's story about sorrow and loss. One of my library patrons mentioned needing a book for her child who had a friend moving away. A neighbor girl lost her mother about 10 years ago. Suicide is an epidemic now, and kids miss friends. It seems we have a cultural blindness to anything sad, and little in the way of support for those who are down. "It'll get better soon." Maybe, but that doesn't make now good. "Just fake it 'til you make it!" We feel worse when we know we are being fake, though. Don't beat yourself up over not feeling like you feel you should feel, if that makes any sense. Grief had a place, and takes time, so you needn't feel guilt on top of it.