![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Without any warning whatsoever, whole chunks of society are ripped out of its fabric, leaving everyone reeling in its wake, struggling to explain what has happened or why.īut the why or the how are almost immaterial in the face of the devastation this wholly mysterious and inexplicable event leaves behind. It’s clearly something that Tom Perrotta understands intimately, either by experience or insight, with his book The Leftovers (now a major HBO series) making testament to the fact that grief is not a monolithic, easily understood or dealt with beast.Īnd there is a grief aplenty throughout the world after 2 percent of the population suddenly disappears in an instant in an event that recalls The Rapture of the Bible but which seemingly grabs people at random regardless of their faith, celebrity, sexuality, gender, or race. ![]() Like any expression of our humanity, it is as individual as the person experiencing it, fleetingly brief for some, painfully lingering for others, its expression finding form in ways both profound and glib, transforming and destructive, a force that cannot be easily contained or explained but which must be allowed to run its course however it is articulated. Grief is not the uniformly expressed, clean cut, step by step, easily measured process that modern pop psychology has led us to believe. ![]()
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