tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4895687241085948761.post3985224115133338452..comments2023-08-14T12:59:49.564-04:00Comments on It's Duck Soup: Grief Expands Exponentially in the UniverseFrederhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13541101078258130096noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4895687241085948761.post-43980590307559248252011-02-04T13:24:28.844-05:002011-02-04T13:24:28.844-05:00Of course, I agree with the overall thrust of this...Of course, I agree with the overall thrust of this entry, but, waaaal -- count me among those who have, over the past dozen years, said, "sooner or later, it happens to all of us." Not as "a reason not to grieve" -- because we both know, when it's happening and after it happens, you GRIEVE -- but as a way to keep the long-distance grief from seeping in at the corners when I don't need it darkening my days/weeks/months. Everybody only gets so-much-time alotted, and a percentage of that alotment deservedly goes toward grieving for family, lovers, and friends ... but to take on _more_ grief than one should be carrying (especially because of increasingly-intrusive media that often keeps rubbing our nose in stories we have no business sharing, which is not what you're talking about here, but which we all encounter to one degree or another these days) is to short-change oneself from the pleasures one would otherwise be enjoying if one wasn't wrapped in the gray blanket of grief. <br /><br />So if I have to choose between living a philosophy of "Grief expands exponentially in the universe" or "Sooner or later, it happens to all of us," I'm joining the latter group. Even if the first is more _accurate_, the latter points toward a _better quality of life_.<br /><br />Wow -- this is just like one of those old James J. Kilpatrick/Nicholas von Hoffman "Point/Counterpoint" features on 60 MINUTES. And in this case, you're the analogue of James J.! Who'd'a thunk it?Cnwlhttp://www.libraryofmaericancomics.comnoreply@blogger.com