Somewhere Smack Bang in The Middle of a Grief Crisis.
How will life hit us when direct danger has passed?
Isn’t it amazing how humans manage to adapt so well to almost any situation? It’s like we’re hardwired to keep moving forward and face difficulty in the moment.
But then there’s the other end of that stick… the moment we are out of danger and are reminded of the cost of the fight and what it took to keep ourselves together.
I wonder how what we are managing right now as a species will hit us when the danger has passed…
War, disease, environmental impact, the next technological evolution…
If I were to let myself psychoanalyse for a moment (don’t mind if I do), I’d say the world is going through a complex grief process. Grief for what we’ve lost. Grief for what we are losing… but we don’t know how to name it.
Something feels heavy. Life and our future feel uncertain. We battle with a loss of excitement, of meaning, of our place in the world. It might look like disconnected issues… but there’s grief underneath it all.
We’re fighting a battle without fully knowing who the enemy is. Some try to simplify it. Blame one person. Blame one worldview. Blame people, places, things. But it’s not as simple as that. And complexity can drive us crazy when we don’t know how to hold it all. So we look for simple solutions to our problems to try and soothe our fears and pain.
But what we are suppressing right now will meet us one day… and how, or whether, we embrace this pain and confusion right now will determine our experience when the moment of direct threat dissipates.
What if it’s all grief?
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