Vergangenheitsbewältigung might be my favorite German word. Lots of jokes about the German language having a (normally long) word for everything, and, well, it’s true more often than not. “Vergangenheitsbewältigung” means “a struggle to come to terms with the past.” I’m thinking about it today because it’s the five year anniversary of the death of […]
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memories, and why the corners of your brain should maybe be left with the dust intact
i’ll just come out and say that today is a “two years ago today” for chris dying… i think this is the year i am feeling it. last year i was fine with it, but, this year, now that i have space and room to properly appreciate my emotions as they do their thing… …yeah. fuck.
what kind of day was this?
[not that it’s over yet] i had to go into work this morning, and on the way in, i ran over a squirrel. i’ve never killed anything before…well, okay, bugs. at any rate, that was a pretty sickening thing to start my day out with. not, you know, sickening for any blood’n’guts aspect, just, well, i’m not a killer. […]
the way things work
y’see, the thing about death is, is that it’s not universal. it may be the great equaliser, but it is by no means universal. if someone close to you dies, and you walk down the street, you see people going about their daily routines and you wonder how they can do it. don’t they understand? […]