Brock Baggarley
Mrs. Lynne Adams
English 1101- 2nd Period
7 September 2017
Word Count: 772
Moving Forward
I’ve often experienced feelings of regrets because of risks I have taken or not taken and words I have said or left unsaid. I sometimes think about how I will deal with these in my future life and how I will cope with grief and other emotions as I grow older. In her book, Option B, author Sheryl Sandberg helps me deal with moments like these. She states, “Of the hundreds of answers, most had one thing in common: the majority of regrets were about failure to act, not actions that failed. Psychologists have found that over time we usually regret the chances we missed, not the chances we took. As my mom often told me when I was growing up, ‘You regret the things you don’t do, not the things you do’ ” (Sandberg 145). The lasting impression that this narrative will leave with readers includes having no regrets, living life to its fullest, and grieving is a natural emotion. Sandberg discusses how to live life without regret and deal with grief as a natural emotion that everyone will experience.
When a person loses a loved one, the hardest emotional phase that we experience is grief. Within grief, regret is common by remembering the opportunities that have been lost. Sheryl Sandberg states, “I thought constantly about how if I’d known that Dave and I had only eleven years, I would’ve made sure we spent more time together. I wished that in the hard moments in our marriage, we
In 2013, Sheryl Sandberg released the best – selling novel, Lean in, that calls on professional women to “lean in” by aiming for leadership positions in their jobs and examines what factors prevent woman from doing so. Last year, her non – profit organization launched a public awareness campaign, Lean In Together, or #LeanInTogether, to partner with the NBA and WNBA. This campaign was focused on men’s roles in reaching gender equality. However, the book and campaign has faced its criticism. Reviewers have deemed the book too narrowly focused on women like Sandberg who are educated, white, and provided with opportunities out of the reach of an average female. Other critics have questioned Sandberg’s relevant guidance to the average woman, since
The book Andrew You Died Too Soon by Corinne Chilstrom gives insight on grief after a husband and wife’s youngest son, Andrew, kills himself with a firearm in their basement. Personally, I do not remember a time when I personally had to grieve but I have been in many situations where I have had to comfort those who were grieving. Through out the book there were several chapters that stuck out to me and made me take a minute to reflect on views of grief.
Death is something that never gets easier to process. Every time you lose a person close to you, whether it is expected or not, it is a hard challenge to overcome. Whether you are young or older, the death of that person has a way of entering your thoughts and affecting your moods or actions. Sometimes the memory of someone they have lost can follow a person for years after the fact or only for a short time. Different people have different ways of accepting that person's absence and working through their grief.
But last year's bitter loving must remain heaped on my heart, and my old thoughts abide" Time has gone by and she cannot get the thought of her love out of her mind. She endures the feeling of bitter pain for her loss. "Where never fell his foot or shone his face I say, there is no memory of him here!" She sees him everywhere, there is no place that doesn’t have a memory of him. Grief is different for everyone some people make take years to recuperate and some people never
Although I believe emulating artwork is not plagiarism, I believe the artist must develop their own ideas off the original work. For instance, Sherrie Levine and her social commentary. Levine mimics male artists to comment on male-dominated art world. However, her photo are re-photographed echos, they are not photos of the original works (photos of photos). Thus, I wonder when an artworks such as Richard Prince’s screen captured portraits become his own work. Does commentary or the stimulation of new ideas, a non-concrete change, from the initial artwork, make it a an authentic work? Does the fact that these portraits evoke questions of their validity solidify their art status? In the case of Sherrie Levine, I believe she does not need to
Grief is a normal part of coping with a loss but for some people, it can be far more serious. In
Almost everyone in the world experiences an event which can be considered as a loss. It is the disappearance of something or someone important to an individual, grief is the natural response to the loss, people feel a range of emotions when they suffer a loss such as shock, panic, denial, anger and guilt. Death is one of the major events associated with loss but there are many others that occur which can also have a negative effect on someone’s life by impacting in various ways.
Grief. There comes a time in everyone’s life that they find themselves grieving due to tragic events or losses. I personally am very fortunate and have not had to experience hardly any grief in my life. Everyone is different which results in everyone having their own way that they deal with grief. The way that Edgar Allan Poe describes grief and the way that Emily Dickinson describes grief is both different and similar.
Losing things, whether it be a person’s favorite pair of old blues jeans that fit just right and they wore everywhere, the family pet that they grew up running in the yard with, or losing someone they love dearly that they spent hours talking to everyday, is an awful thing to go through. In Nye’s poem she writes, “Before you know what kindness really is/ you must lose things,/ feel the future dissolve in a moment/ like salt in a weakened broth” (Lines 1-4). Loss is depressing and gut wrenching, the person feels lost, they feel numb, and they feel everything at once. It is such an overwhelming time, and the person feels as if they will never
Sooner or later, each of us will experience that dagger in our heart called grief. Dealing with grief is a challenge like no other. How can you pick up the pieces, heal the wounds, and move on without feeling like you 're betraying the memory of your loved one? As a nurse, I have sat with families who have just received that dreaded news that no one ever wants to hear, families who aren’t prepared for the avalanche of emotions that sweep over them when the final moment comes, even if they knew death was imminent. Despite the gamut of emotions we feel, grieving for a loved one helps us cope and heal. The intense, heart-breaking anguish indicates that a deep connection has been severed. Without a doubt, grieving is painful. But it is also
Everybody has learned a lesson at one point in their lives. Whether it is from something that they did, or something that someone else did. They learned a lesson. A common time that this happens could be in your teens, or nearing the end of your life. Sometimes to think about others, you have to hit rock bottom first, before you realize that you are not okay. In all three of the stories we read, the theme of regret was shown. The stories analyzed this theme by introducing the idea of being conceded in the beginning and dissatisfied in the end.
Grief is intense mental suffering or sorrow that is often caused by someone’s death. Grief is a way people cope with losing a loved one, however, not everyone grief the same way. Some grief for years and some grief for only a few weeks. For example, when my uncle was killed, I didn’t begin feeling the heaviness of his death until the weekend of his funeral. When I first heard about it I wasn’t bother much until I went to his house, saw his old room and picture, and actually being at the funeral. For weeks, I couldn’t sleep, but eventually things got better and I didn’t think of him much. But every now and then if I hear something that reminds me of him, brings me sorrow or I would dream about him. However, his death had a bigger effect on my
We have all lost someone or something at one point in our lives. If you haven’t, then you will. Loss triggers so many emotions fear, anger, doubt, and sadness. Sometimes I don’t know how to control those emotions, I feel like I’m drowning in all of them, struggling to rise up and stay strong. When I lose something, I have random mood swings. I also always find a way to blame myself.
“Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.”
It could be the loss of someone through death or separation, the loss of health through illness or accident, or the loss of something such as a house or a job.