Does this metaphor seem to trivialize the loss of a child?

Warning, this post deals with the idea of losing a child in the abstract.The topic of this post is maybe a little off center of the subreddit's topic, but looking around I don't think I can see a better place to ask this question.I have kids, whom I raise together with my wife.The other day I wrote the following:"The loss of childhood dreams and aspirations is the loss of a child. A child that was, is not any longer, except as something that can only reasonably be thought of as a ghost.And sometimes, the loss feels exactly like what it is."Having written that, I'm beginning to worry that people who literally had children who died would likely be justifiably upset on reading the above.If that's so, I want to know. But I'm having a hard time wrapping my mind around it. As a dad myself, though not as a dad who has ever lost a kid, I feel like the metaphor is totally apt. I feel like I have a really good idea what it would feel like to lose my son, and I feel like what I experience when I think too hard about my own childhood and how much of my ideals and hopes and dreams have been lost, is very much like what it would feel like were one of my own children to die. Of course there's going to be a difference in degree, but, as they say, "it's only a metaphor."I want to get opinions from people who have kids, if you're up for it. Does the bit I wrote seem wrong or bad to you? Or does the metaphor seem apt? Should I avoid saying things like this to avoid traumatizing parents who have lost children? Or is that unlikely? What do you think? via /r/Parenting http://ift.tt/2qMkrmA