Philosophers have been puzzled by the fact that grief fades. If one form of grief is responsive to the death of someone you love—not to its impact on you or your relationship with them—then shouldn’t you grieve forever? The significance of their death for them does not diminish. And it’s not about you.
Like Tig Notaro's 10 minute ending to her Netflix special, Happy to be Here, re whether the Indigo Girls were going to come out to play. Hilarious at different levels as the time went on... Just as Lee Stewart described his Shitbottle journey. One of the funniest skits I've ever seen.
Just finished teaching Life is Hard to my Intro students, many of whom appreciated the point that humor can be an appropriate way of assimilating grief. And they generally agreed with your larger thesis that life is hard, but hardship should not be allowed to displace the pursuit of happiness. Simone Weil was heroic but tragic.Total self-sacrifice does not save the world, or even much improve it.
Maybe practically speaking we will not be able to function if we grieve forever.
On that note- there are some who have been so broken by the loss of a loved one that they have stopped creating what they love. What is it different that they experience?
Like Tig Notaro's 10 minute ending to her Netflix special, Happy to be Here, re whether the Indigo Girls were going to come out to play. Hilarious at different levels as the time went on... Just as Lee Stewart described his Shitbottle journey. One of the funniest skits I've ever seen.
Garrison Keillor did something like that with his “two penguins on an ice floe” joke.
Just finished teaching Life is Hard to my Intro students, many of whom appreciated the point that humor can be an appropriate way of assimilating grief. And they generally agreed with your larger thesis that life is hard, but hardship should not be allowed to displace the pursuit of happiness. Simone Weil was heroic but tragic.Total self-sacrifice does not save the world, or even much improve it.
I never did like the penguin joke.
I give you the three-minute supercut of Donald Trump saying “China.” https://youtu.be/RDrfE9I8_hs
Maybe practically speaking we will not be able to function if we grieve forever.
On that note- there are some who have been so broken by the loss of a loved one that they have stopped creating what they love. What is it different that they experience?