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Sharing Your Pain – The Dumping Circles

July 24, 2015RoryCoping Skills, Daily Update, DeathCoping Mechanism, Coping Skills, Death, Dumping Circles, George, Grief, Loss, Meme, Pain

I’ve long since learned, and try to live by a simple rule. When in pain, grief, fear, or frailty, there are only a couple of rules for being a good human. I call it the Dumping Circles Rule. When someone has died, for example, there is an order of who gets to dump sadness on whom.

It's Too Real

July 23, 2015RoryCoping Skills, Daily Update, DeathApathy, Apathy Meme, Death, Depression Meme, George, Meme, Pain3 Comments

I thought it was supposed to feel like it isn’t real. I hear people say that it doesn’t feel real to them when someone dies… I don’t get it. I wake up several times a night, with no idea why I’m upset. The it hits me: George is dead. I return to restless sleep. I