I'm feeling a little down and frustrated today. I have a lot to do. Why am I not more motivated? Plus, I have so many things to be happy about—why am I still so sad? So I did what any respective writer/editor would do: I turned to Google, and came across this thoughtful series, A Study in Bereavement, by Meghan O'Rourke. I highly recommend it for anyone who's suffered a loss.
These two lines in particular resonated with me:
"This is part of the complexity of grief: A piece of you recognizes it is an extreme state, an altered state, yet a large part of you is entirely subject to its demands."
"I was not prepared for how hard I would find it to re-enter the slipstream of contemporary life, our world of constant connectivity and immediacy, so ill-suited to reflection."
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