April 11, 2004
Does anyone know where I can find a copy of the rules of thought, feeling, and behavior in these circumstances? It seems like there should be a rule book somewhere that lays out everything exactly the way one should respond to a loss like this. I'd surely like to know if I'm doing it right. Am I whining enough or too much? Am I unseemly in my occasional moments of lightheartedness? At what date and I supposed to turn off the emotion and jump back on the treadmill of normalcy? Is there a specific number of days or decades that must pass before I can do something I enjoy without feeling I've betrayed my dearest love? And when, oh when, am I ever really going to believe this has happened? Next time you're in a bookstore, as if there's a rule book.
11:54 p.m.
Jim
Tags: life inspirational loss grief
The lost glove is happy.
Vladimir NabokovTags: loss melancholy gloves
Every morning, I wake up and forget just for a second that it happened. But once my eyes open, it buries me like a landslide of sharp, sad rocks. Once my eyes open, I'm heavy, like there's to much gravity on my heart.
Sarah OcklerI knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got through it.
Jodi PicoultIt was so damn hard to find love in this world, to locate someone who could make you feel that there was a reason you'd been put on this earth. A child, I imagined, was the purest form of that. A child was the love you didn't have to look for, didn't have to prove anything to, didn't have to worry about losing. Which is why, when it happened, it hurt so badly.
Jodi PicoultSjel, vær trofast til det siste!
Seirens seir er alt å miste.
Tapets alt din vinning skapte; -
evig eies kun det tapte.
Tags: loss
What is first seen as a loss is now seen as a gain. For he finds solitude, not in far off, quite places; he creates it out of himself, spreads it around him, wherever he may be, because he loves it and slowly he ripens in this tranquility. For the inner process is beginning to unfold, stillness is extraordinarily important.
Janwillem van de WeteringTags: zen loss tranquility solar-plexus
Hope in the beginning feels like such a violation of the loss, and yet without it we couldn't survive.
Gail CaldwellTags: loss death hope recovery
The real hell of this," he told her, "is that you're going to get through it.
Gail CaldwellI know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures.
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