Luck of The Draw

One thing I'm working on is identifying my emotions. I know when I'm happy, sad, angry, horny, depressed, anxious but anything more than that, let me get out my feelings wheel. It's something that I'm working on. But one thing that's being mentioned a lot to me recently is grief. The quote above is something that was said to me recently.

"How can it be?" I replied. "Nobody has died."

I said this because I thought grief is something that you only feel when someone dies. And even then, you cry, you miss them, cry some more, but slowly and surely you move on. It's the circle of life; everything and everyone has their time in the sun.

I thought you couldn't experience grief elsewhere. That's only reserved for death. No more grief for anything else. Well, I'm womanly enough to admit it- I was wrong. Shocker.

Grief is a response to a particular loss whether that's through a friend, a partner, a parent, a job, a loss of home, and possessions. it's a part of your life that has been taken away by something that is out of your control. Or even a lifestyle that you want but you see someone else living that life.

All I'm going to say, to help remind myself this, that it's OK to feel grief.
It's ok to cry.
It's ok to be angry.
And it's ok to have a pity party for one.
Give yourself permission to grieve and remind yourself that you're ok.

xo