I have found myself in a funk, and not because I'm at home all the time. I am grieving, just as I did following 9/11. This pandemic is a great world tragedy of epic proportions.
Communist China is charging ahead to take over the world, to take our freedoms, and democracy. To kill our economy, our jobs, and our lives (with this virus). A reminder of the Holocaust, using engineered Covid-19 from their country.
I believe that we, Americans, are able get through this. We are freedom loving and strong people.
This is part of a post in Psychology Today.
"And with loss comes grief. That indefinable sense of angst, claustrophobia gripping your heart in the small of the night? That amorphous anxiety haunting your days? Grief. You have lost something. Only you know what "that" is for you, but it is gone, and you’re grieving it.
We have lost—or, more properly, been forced to give up in the face of the growing pandemic—our lives as we know them. We have been forced to change so much, so quickly, we are experiencing a sort of existential whiplash.
Here’s the thing: Grief brings introspection and, by association, reinvention. With reinvention comes hope. We are not lost—but found. We may be in the midst of the Great Grieving, yet that grieving may well be the harbinger of a greater awakening—The Great Awakening. Therein lies the hope, for each of us as individuals and, with a modicum of grace, society a whole.
That hope, at least in the moment, is mired in uncertainty, and with that uncertainty comes grief. We don’t know what’s going to happen, so we don’t know what to do.
With grief also comes uncertainty. In the midst of our changing landscape, what will the future hold? What will life look like for us going forward?
Even more poignant is the fact that this uncertainty—along with its attendant fears, anxieties, and abject grief—is something we can’t see.
We’re not all good. In fact, we’re in some pretty heavy weather. Our grief is our means for moving forward through tragedy and change—and finding ourselves on the other side.
Our grief is how we view our new reality. Embracing change and recognizing this is not simply a moment in time, but the dawn of a new era.
Yes, you are grieving, but in good measure. Embrace it, use it, and evolve."
Written by Michael J, Formica 2020 Psychology Today - Social Distancing
Edited by me.
