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Write An Obituary Of Your Choosing
It’s time to process that grief, my friends.
It goes without saying that 2020 kicked our collective arses and handed them back to us, and not very graciously I might add. A quarter of the way into 2021 and, well, here we are. Waiting for our butts to be handed back to us again.
As a reader, I’ve been seeing a lot of articles on COVID-related depression and anxiety. As an editor, there was a sweep of submissions at once all having to do with suicide. All of it is a disturbing yet understandable turn of events.
The New York Times recently posted on Medium a story that got my wheels turning. It’s OK to Grieve for the Small Losses of a Lost Year. I couldn’t grasp what they could possibly mean by “small” losses with the enormity of what was 2020. I had to satisfy my curiosity, so I clicked. The story explains how many feel as though they have no right to complain since none of the “2.6 million people around the world” directly affected them.
That doesn’t mean that they or you haven’t suffered a loss that needs to be remembered, felt, grieved, and then buried.
Bury The Dead
The Bible states we are to let the ‘dead bury the dead’. We’re still alive and in the name of all that is holy and for the sake of life everywhere, it’s time to…
