Status Updates From The Year of Magical Thinking

The mourner is in fact ill, but because this state of mind is common and seems so natural to us, we do not call mourning an illness…. To put my conclusion more precisely: I should say that in mourning the subject goes through a modified and transitory manic-depressive state and overcomes it.

i love the repetition in this story, it’s constant. a nagging feeling lest you forget