Mourning
If we are engaged on self-creation, the most exciting privilege of existence, what is this sadness bubbling up? Inevitably there is no escape from mourning our lost dreams and our mangled self. We had a vision of a world which turned out to be impossible, because we must calibrated our insides to other people’s outsides, an impossibility. Mourning is a process with which can now quantify, thanks to Elisabeth Kubler Ross. Denial=Not me! This can’t be happening! Anger= This is so unfair! This is so humiliating! Other people have it easier! Depression= Now everyone will see I’m defective. People will jeer! (Fear, Pain, Guilt) What’s the use? It’s hopeless. Bargaining=What if I just pretend? What if I “check out”? Who needs to be here feeling all this anyway? Acceptance= I’m willing to do what’s necessary to become the person I want to be. Mantra: I can accept my imperfections and move on
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