Ritwik was experiencing grief stages but not in the order suggested in the classical seven stages. First, there was shock and then unbearable pain. Anger was barely part of his routine and it was always directed at Waheguru Ji. He soon accepted he had lost the woman he loved – and also the fact that he wouldn't ever love someone like her again or at all – and the depression didn't last more than a week and a half. But he completely forgot about the upward turn, the reconstruction, and hope.