Outside Reading #5

“I didn’t understand why I needed help, because it seemed to me that you should wear heavy boots when your dad dies, and if you aren’t wearing heavy boots, then you need help” (Foer 200).
This quote really made me think. I mean what is a healthy way to grieve? Is it disrespectful to move on or is it healthy to grieve for a long time? This is a hard question to answer, and I think that it all depends upon the person and their situation. Grieving is a natural thing and we use it to deal with our feelings and emotions. If we don’t grieve or even just sort through our emotions, those feelings are going to come around and affect us later on in life. But, on the other hand, if we spend too much time grieving and our life just stops, that isn’t healthy either because we could fall into depression or just fall behind on life. It is healthy to grieve, but not for a long period of time. I know that when a loved one dies, you feel like you are never going to get over their death. It is hard to know how to move on with your life. But, you must move on. Just sitting in the same place in your life and not moving forward is not going to help anything because all you will be thinking about are your feelings. When you are going on with daily activities, you begin to think about other things. This is not to say that you don’t have those feeling on your mind, but the daily tasks just distract you. And, eventually you will be back to a normal life.