Loss
How does Loss fit into our modern society, on the one hand its all about what you have got and what you aspire to have, on the other loss surrounds us every day, loss of jobs, losing life and limb, loss of face and so on, is our society in denial about loss and what we have lost.
—UnderThisSeparatorIsLatterHalf—
Recently I seem to have lost quite a lot, my marriage, a friend, and with that alot more and it got me thinking about loss in our society. I am not sure its something we are comfortable with. The label ‘loser’ is one of the worst we can give someone, yet what it describes is someone who has lost or is in the process of losing something.
What is it about losing that we find so disparaging or unpleasant. Loss is difficult, but surely its something we need support with, and it is care that people need who are suffering from loss. A Friend of mine who separated from his wife, told me how everyone always saw them as a happy and ideal couple, which he revealed they weren’t at all. Since the separation previous Friends and aquaintances have found it difficult if not impossible to talk to him about it all. It is not only my Friend who has lost here but the people who idealised his marriage, they have lost their fantasties.
What is it that you’d be willing to lose, to give up, let go of, anything, nothing? Loss is actaully a transformative and growing process something to be grasped and taken hold of….. The moth loses its ability to be a caterpillar but now it can fly.
Now I lost my filofax, that is a difficult thing to give up.
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