“How should we grieve when someone close to us dies? Should we wail and gnash our teeth? Should we swallow our pain? Some would say there is no right answer. You feel whatever you feel, and heal however you heal, and that’s okay. But according to the ancient Stoics – those Greco-Roman philosophers making a comeback as preachers of practical wisdom in a self-help world – there is a correct answer to the question of how we should grieve. And the answer is that we shouldn’t. What’s done is done. There is nothing you can do to change the situation – so move on.”
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We might feel sadness, depression or both after a loss. When someone close to us dies, we lose a source of energy; so, we need to temporarily stop functioning and re-evaluate our life without them. However, when we remember the moments when we could've or should've done something expected and we didn't, we'd mentally beg for an opportunity to do it, so we start to fight but in vain. It's called depression.
Therefore, sadness can be analogized to charging whereas depression brings nothing but exhaustion. The loss is dangerous to our health if it makes us depressed, or lower our confidence (when we deadly depend on them), but being sad for a while is healthy in my opinion.45m