The Sad
I have been writing this post for 3 years. Today is the 3 year anniversary of my grandmother's death. People lose people every day. I am not special. My grandmother was. She was important to me. I was new to grief, and this is how I experienced it. I hope it is a good while before I have to do it again. Grief should be taught in school. They should teach us about the different kinds of grief - how you feel when your beloved pet dies (sad) or how you will feel when your relationship falls apart (really sad but also angry and also hotly defiant) and how you feel when you lose a person that you love to a sudden and unexpected death (sad in a way that permeates you even in your fingernails). My grandmother died on a piercingly cold, 15 below zero morning on February 1st 2017 and I was really sad then. In the days prior I sat with my family and tried to comfort my mom as she performed the palliative care that the hospital staff did not because she was dying anyway, why bother mois...
