Episode 73 - Acknowledging and responding to grief | Real talk
A dear friend of mine lost his family member and people bombarded him with questions like how and when etc. It's not like he didn’t want to answer, he was not in a situation to answer at that moment. When I got the news, I was petrified to the bone and didn’t know how to respond or how to face him and what I should be doing. We all fall into such situations, because many of us don’t know how to respond when we hear of losing a closed one.During this pandemic too, when we hear of people losing lives due to COVID-19, we just get clueless sometimes as to what should we be doing.Just be with them. Talk to them and listen to them.Hear them out. Just be there, hold the space.Talk about the memories of the deceased.Do what you can. Share about your experiences of dealing with grief.But please,Don’t pounce on them and ask them repeatedly to share the ‘how’ 1000 times.I experienced this when I had lost someone dear to me. We are not perfect. We don’t know how to act in such situations. It’s alright. Be you. Do whatever you can to bring peace to the family of the person, who returned back.We can at least be humans first.
