Grief Sucks
a year ago
I won't be winning any awards for creativity on this one, most humans have or will experience grief at some point in their lives. But it still sucks to be dealing with it right now and you never know how quickly it'll get better. Is today going to be a day I sink into depression? Will I be angry over the injustice of the universe? How about a day of pretending nothing is wrong? Trying to figure out if there's anything I can trade to get back what I had? I know for sure it's not a day of acceptance... *sighs*
Anyone more familiar with Kübler-Ross' theory than what gets presented in a TV drama knows the stages of grief are not linear, you don't successfully pass one of them and progress to the next. If only I didn't have to do the at-home experiment to prove that... please, I'll just take your word for it. I don't suggest you try this at home kids... but, too bad, you have no choice in the matter. If you ever love someone or something (and I hope you do in some way), then you will experience the grief of losing it.
Or I suppose you could be "lucky" and die early before losing anything you love... so, you get to be grieved without grieving yourself. But I'm definitely not feeling or advocating for that. I know at some point the number of acceptance days will be the majority over the number of depression, angry, denial, bargaining days. Not yet, though... until then, you get to read me whine about it.
Anyone more familiar with Kübler-Ross' theory than what gets presented in a TV drama knows the stages of grief are not linear, you don't successfully pass one of them and progress to the next. If only I didn't have to do the at-home experiment to prove that... please, I'll just take your word for it. I don't suggest you try this at home kids... but, too bad, you have no choice in the matter. If you ever love someone or something (and I hope you do in some way), then you will experience the grief of losing it.
Or I suppose you could be "lucky" and die early before losing anything you love... so, you get to be grieved without grieving yourself. But I'm definitely not feeling or advocating for that. I know at some point the number of acceptance days will be the majority over the number of depression, angry, denial, bargaining days. Not yet, though... until then, you get to read me whine about it.