{"id":11070,"date":"2026-08-07T06:47:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T06:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/humorsidehub.com\/?p=11070"},"modified":"2026-08-07T06:47:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T06:47:49","slug":"singer-who-lost-both-parents-in-five-years-moves-people-to-tears-with-grief-is-like-glitter-analogy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/humorsidehub.com\/?p=11070","title":{"rendered":"Singer who lost both parents in five years moves people to tears with \u2018grief is like glitter\u2019 analogy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cIt\u2019s lovely at first in small doses, but like grief, you don\u2019t know when it\u2019s coming.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vincint Cannady, who uses they\/them pronouns, recently opened up about the grieving process a year after losing their mother. On the podcast Tell Me Something Messy, the musician explains that the loss of their mother came four years after the death of their father. \u201cIt is the strangest feeling not having them here,\u201d Cannady says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Losing a loved one is an unfortunate part of life that most people will experience. No two people grieve the same, but some things about grief remain consistent for everyone. Grief is not linear, and it can show up unexpectedly. But for viewers of the podcast, Cannady\u2019s analogy about grief moved some to tears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"grief;<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGrief is like glitter\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Admittedly, the grieving child did not create the analogy, but read it somewhere and found it helpful. The singer explains that losing your parents takes away a certain amount of joy that you don\u2019t realize until you experience it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI read something the other day that I thought was really beautiful,\u201d Cannady says. \u201cGrief is like glitter. I don\u2019t know about you, but I hate glitter. It\u2019s lovely at first in small doses, but like grief, you don\u2019t know when it\u2019s coming. You don\u2019t know how much of it is going to be there, but like glitter, glitter gets everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"grief;<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

They go on to explain that, like after coming into contact with glitter, you find grief everywhere. \u201cIt comes in doses, and you\u2019re overwhelmed, and you hate it, and you want to get it off, and you don\u2019t know how to, but it\u2019s there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As time passes, the person wearing the glitter showers some of it away, but some still remains. No matter how much you try to rid yourself of it, glitter still shows up. The same goes for grief. No matter how much you try to rid yourself of grief, it still pops up in unexpected places.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s then that Cannady shares something beautiful. After fighting with the sticky, sparkly grief for what feels like an eternity, it\u2019s not as present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grief never fully goes away<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\"grief;<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd then days pass, and weeks pass, and months pass,\u201d Cannady tells the podcast host, Brandon Kyle Goodman. \u201cAnd then someday you\u2019re in your closet, and you pull out a coat or a jacket, and a bit of glitter falls on your hand, and you get sad because you remember what that glitter means. But it\u2019s not as heavy as it was before, and it\u2019s not as messy as it was before.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As time passes, glitter is found less often. However, Cannady explains that glitter is part of you now: \u201cEven though it is annoying at times, and sometimes it gets in your eye, but you get it out, and you move on. You remain shiny. It\u2019s just a remembrance of a lot of love.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The singer shares advice for those experiencing grief, saying that people should give themselves grace. They encourage others not to focus on how other people feel about how you feel about your grief. Grieving is personal, but talking about it with others is therapeutic, according to Cannady. They share that pouring grief into other things, like work or creativity, can be helpful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou have to find ways to pour your grief into other things,\u201d they advise. \u201cYou pour your grief into your work. You pour your grief into life. You pour your grief into your friends and your relationships, and you make sure that they know how much it means to you. Because it\u2019s not just grief, because before it was grief, it was love. It\u2019s still love. It\u2019s just love in absence.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the clip was shared to Instagram, people were moved to tears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One person comments, \u201cWhew, and just like that \u2014 my glitter is back.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhew, I think I have a piece of glitter in my eye because\u2026. I lost my father in July and it truly changes you,\u201d someone else writes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI remember I couldn\u2019t say my mom died out loud,\u201d another person shares. \u201cIf I did, I would burst into tears. It felt too real!! Saying it out loud almost 2 1\/2 years later, it still feels unreal, but it doesn\u2019t hurt as much. I still cry a little while saying it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cIt\u2019s lovely at first in small doses, but like grief, you don\u2019t know when it\u2019s coming.\u201d Vincint Cannady, who uses they\/them pronouns, recently opened up<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/humorsidehub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/766914645_2098655930688335_6125547144116172146_n.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/humorsidehub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/humorsidehub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/humorsidehub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humorsidehub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humorsidehub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/humorsidehub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11072,"href":"https:\/\/humorsidehub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11070\/revisions\/11072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humorsidehub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/humorsidehub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humorsidehub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humorsidehub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}