The Purpose of a Pet

Might not be what you think

Yesterday I wrote on the Foolsletter about moving firewood. It seemed to surface some stories of grief for some people. I’m going to cook the kitten tomorrow. Today, I’m going to follow up with some thoughts on grief.

Grieving is a skill. It’s a skill we either develop or avoid.

Grieving is a natural process that our bodies go through.

Grief works best when we get out of the way and let the process take care of itself.
Grief is inevitable. It has to be. Half of all life is loss. Everything that comes into your life, you will loose, including your life.
All of those skills you love and value?
They’re going to go too
Even simple things like walking and wiping your ass by yourself?
These too shall pass.

You may have heard of Elizabeth Kubler-Ross. She came up with the notion that we go through five stages of and then grief is complete.

YAY!
Five stages!
Why don’t they go to four?
This grief model echoes of our silly human attempts to put things into digestible packages.
Eight minute abs. Seven Habits…