I think about this ALL the time. I don’t see how we return to normal without some collective grieving process or at least acknowledgement.
We are not ready to return to “normal.” There is no normal. If 600,000 people died in, say, a nuclear strike, there would be endless memorials, holidays, acts of sympathy and healing. We would be forced to acknowledge it. Instead, we are all just. . .living with all that grief.
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I keep talking with my friends about this, that I think we all need some therapy about it. We lived through many traumatic events.
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Surrounded by people who are living in vehement and offensive and murderous denial.
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Texas or Florida?
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And hurry up and get back in the office like nothing happened.
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Yes, but part of being a(n) (white) American is living with the knowledge that there’s infinite suffering that enables your pleasant life. Apathy is built in
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It dawned on me recently that I have not gotten close to appropriately mourning my gramma, who died of covid, alone, in December. It doesn’t feel real but I still feel empty. I don’t know when it’s supposed to feel real. When do we feel good again?
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I don't know when you will feel good again, but I would like to tell you one day you will and I say this from personal experience. It starts with you beginning to feel your grief which isn't easy but its the only way. You have experienced a very traumatic event & you need to heal
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And a significant number of people are just pretending it isn't happening, that the numbers are fake, and that those who died "had a good run." It's a different kind of illness.
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