And play games on my phone and probably eat quite a lot of cheese. My friends funeral was yesterday and it was just very emotionally draining. Probably not helped by the fact that I don't find the vast majority of rites & rituals surrounding death to be even the slightest bit helpful. (Yeah, pretty sure this makes me a psychopath.)
The eulogies were lovely, though. I know being a funeral home pastor is challenging cause you're often leading services for folks you don't know, but I would petition for funeral homes to get rid of pastors and replace them with professional grief counselors to lead services. They'd probably have more helpful things to say, and wouldn't leave me thinking, "Dude, he was a gay, hispanic, extremely lapsed Catholic, I don't think he had the relationship with God you think he did."
And of course this week we had a presentation at work on "Resilience in Grief and Loss" and honestly, could we just not? Why do we always have to be resilient? It's fucking exhausting.
So for today, fuck resilience.
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