Your Guide to Going Through All the Stages of Grief in Two Days
Can’t take more than two days off work? Still want to stay in alignment with this modern world’s obsession with healing, growth, and emotional maturity? This guide is for you. 1. Go with the flow. Listen to yourself in the moment. You’ll be surprised. I was pretty sure I’d fight. If you asked me two minutes before the monologue I launched into, you'd find me mentally clinging to this. But two minutes later? A surge of unprecedented serenity. And I let go. 2. Ritualize your meltdown. a. Go home. Shower. Pray. Remind yourself of your nothingness in the grand scheme of things. “I don’t know. But You do. So, alhamdulilah—even though I don’t know or understand.” b. Put on your comfiest clothes. Choose the filthy habit you’ll drown your sadness in. Then get back to work, because we cannot help but Sisyphus our way through this life. 3. Be honest. Be open. Be a little unhinged. Sprinkle vulnerability with sarcasm (because is it even worth it if you're not making fun of it?): "S...