Grief and Society

I think one of the things that this experience of grief can point us to is the need for us to be social creatures.

We have a primal need to be in love with the world around us. As a society, we are behind in this regard.

I think one thing that pulls us through here is that we have to be our own judge and jury. We have the power to say what grief is. In this regard, there should be no such thing as feeling guilty for our feelings.

They are what they are.

What we can do is try to own them. It’s hard to do, but I guess that would be my encapsulating belief for how to manage our pain.

As soon as we own our feelings, we tend to have a little bit more facility to decide what to do with them.