Eric GarciaVerified account

Are you happy?

Yes. I've learned to be I've learned to give myself a short time to get over insults and crushing disappointments, and bounce back. I've learned to be resilient, pro-active, self-sufficient. (The buck stops here) The only thing I truly fear are the first few years of grief.

Grief upends me. It deletes my body's capacity for happiness. It reduces me to a shell run by some sort of basic motor. I have been through grief many times, and each time I think 'that must be enough, statistically?". But grief doesn't give a shit about math.