life, love,art. heart failure and assorted ramblings

life, love,art. heart failure and assorted ramblings

Don't Talk Like That...

I write to find out what my heart thinks....
I am here to celebrate my life, to uncover my fears, to hold on to love, to grieve my losses, to laugh long and hard, and to learn how to live a full magnificent life with heart failure. I am honoring my creativity, and exploring all of my emotions out loud ...before anyone can say....."Don't talk like that!"


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Tuesday, October 15, 2019

I thought I was doing it right...


I am just finishing her book “It’s OK, NOT to be OK”.  It has been an amazing new, or maybe old look at our culture’s inability to deal with grief and loss.  I am learning that everything I thought I knew about grieving and loss was mostly wrong.  That means when I thought I was doing everything right (based on what I thought I knew) I was truly doing everything wrong. There are no easy answers, there is no right way, there is no time limit, every loss is different and I am the only one that can figure out what is right for me.  But I will admit right here and now that it can change from day to day and then there are days that I am just too exhausted to deal with it.  However, I am learning that some of the things I do and feel that would typically fall under the heading of weird, macabre, self-centered and a host of other inappropriate behavior are in fact absolutely normal….we just do not want to talk or hear about it.


"Everybody's Talking" Nilson

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