Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Grief and Anger

Another positive title, huh?

I'm disturbed that Caprice's orbital cellulitis is something that has to be approached through surgery.  I've been troubled lately by the dogs who have had to be released.  I'm worried about my friend, Julie, who is undergoing radiation now for her breast cancer, and my friend Carol's husband who has so many problems right now.  I am angered by THE oil spill, a sink hole in Guatemala, lives lost needlessly every day.

I sit at my computer and cry.  Thinking of some training twenty or so years back, I think of Kubler-Ross's stages of grieving and google it.  Grief NOW has 7 stages!  Why is grief even more intricate now?  When I look at the stages, what has been added is more resolution, working through the grief.  I return to anger- the way the world and my world seem to be crumbling.  Or maybe the drepression, loneliness stage.

This is life.  Mostly we live with it.  We show denial, guilt, anger, loneliness, and perhaps, most of all acceptance.  There is so little we can change.  Are we helpless?  I honestly don't know.  And here I am, back to anger, and lacking clarity and comphrehensibility, above all.

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