American culture does not know how to deal with grief and mourning. According to psychiatry online 68% of Americans develop disorders from unresolved grief*. Our culture is consistently ignoring its pain and saying that it’s pain unimportant. Why do we stifle our tears? Why can’t “real men” cry? Why, as a culture, are we embarrassed by our emotions? Why do we say everything is fine when it is not? If so many Americans today are struggling with their grief why will we not change?
So many people celebrate babies, birthdays, weddings, life, and when someone dies we pretend like nothing happened and they were not important. We, as the future of America, need to change the preconceived notions of grief.
Grief is natural process that happens to everyone and the future generations of America need to embrace and deal with their grief. People will always suffer from loss; we will lose pets, children, relatives, those who are close to us and who we love. We must acknowledge our pain and deal with our problems. No more hiding in the dark or pretending loss does not affect us. When something hurts, say it hurts, then fix the problem. Deal with your grief. Take time to mourn. We need to change.
I agree with your blog. I completely agree with the fact that people try to forget about those that are lost or pass away. Grief is not something that's easy to deal with and shouldn't be taken lightly. I am interested to see where you end up taking this blog and how you argue your opinion.
ReplyDeleteI do agree with the fact that grief is an emotion that can sometimes be ignored, but I don't see it.
ReplyDeleteWhy would grief be ignored in this culture with it's obession for the genre of "Drama" and it's affiliation for performances around characters whos lives have been one story of grief after another?
Watch those shows again. Look at that drama. It is drama for the sake of drama. Most movies and shows have a terrible situation that makes the characters choose whether to kill everyone or make some hilarious prank.
ReplyDeleteThe grief that our shows put on is something that is solved through anger and explosions. It is not reality.