In last week’s Wiser by Choice book club, it was the first time I compared three books with identical titles (and three others not far off). The unifying theme was “friction” and it’s really gotten me thinking. As Roger Dooley writes in his book Friction, once you put on your “friction goggles” it’s hard not to see examples of friction everywhere. (My parking experience at the Toronto airport at 4:30 a.m. this morning was not pretty…)
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My mom and my four-year-old granddaughter Tatum are having an ongoing conversation these days about the difference between needs and wants. A recent installment went like this:
Grandma: “I’m going grocery shopping, Tatum. Grandad asked me to get him some ‘wants’ not just ‘needs.’ What do you think I should buy him?”
Tatum: “Definitely cookies.”
The Grief of Change
“But what if we just want things to stay the same?”
I hear you, sister!
When things are in a constant state of flux, grief is a common and appropriate reaction. And it often shows up as frustration.
We don’t only grieve specific losses, such as the death of a loved one or the loss of a job, but change itself — its existence, its relentlessness — can elicit feelings of grief too.
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