I’ve lost a lot of things this year. I lost the ability to take much needed antidepressants due to my Sjogrens. I lost days to mental and physical illness. I lost faith in some important things for a time. I lost my gallbladder. But none of it compares to what happened in September. Two months ago, I lost my mom. It’s hard to believe I’ve been living for two entire months since she passed. Right now I feel the grief […]
Category: Loss
What It’s like to Lose a Job You Love.
Experiencing job loss has become a common situation for many people. It’s not always a bad situation; some people are freed from jobs that they despised and use the loss to start doing something more meaningful with their lives. This post is not for those people. This is for the people that counted themselves lucky to be employed where they were. I was unemployed for ten months after I finished grad school before I found a job at a drinking […]