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• Wednesday, Feb 15, 2012

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  “WE ARE NOT allowed this. We are allowed to be deeply into basketball, or Buddhism, or Star Trek, or jazz, but we are not allowed to be deeply sad. Grief is a thing that we are encouraged to “let go of,” to “move on from,” and we are told specifically how this should be done. Countless well-intentioned friends, distant family members, hospital workers, and strangers I met at parties recited the famous five stages of grief to me: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. I was alarmed by how many people knew them, how deeply this single definition of the grieving process had permeated our cultural consciousness. Not only was I supposed to feel these five things, I was meant to feel them in that order and for a prescribed amount of time.”

  The incredible Cheryl Strayed (no, really, read Torch, right now, go get it and then leave work and go home) is Dear Sugar

  • #dear sugar
  • #cheryl strayed
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      Totally agree with this. I think people forget or don’t understand what it’s like to grieve and that sometimes you just...

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