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Sunday, February 09, 2020

First there is:
Shock and Disbelief - Denial
then
Pain laden with Guilt
then
Anger and Bargaining (blame)
then
Depression, Isolation, and Reflection 
circular, until...
A Turning Point
and then (time depends on external and internal factors)
Working it Out, Rebuilding
then
Acceptance

These steps are at times revisited over the same subject if they are reawakened by an event that reminds us of where we were when the whole thing started.  A photograph can do it.  A birthday. An anniversary.  A song.

If you find yourself in the first step of a personal crisis again, long after you were thinking it was dead, stop, ask yourself, "Didn't I accept this already?"