Grief and Retribution
What it’s about? Grief and Retribution. Started as a coffee meeting joke, but just ended up as something else. I like it.
Part of this is dealing with current events, part of this love and loss, and part of this is my own humor, such as it is.
Started with the six stages of grief:
- Denial
- Anger
- Bargaining
- Depression
- Acceptance
- Retribution
Then, a few days later, chatting with a fishing buddy about love and loss, my comment, “We sure are going to be some weird older people,” he followed with, “we are older people. And you are weird.” Wear it with pride, my friend, wear it with pride. (Sagittarius brother.)
So this started as a joke, but it has a destination. That I’ve grown fond of using both Shakespeare and Marcus Aurelius as source material? Not news. But what I recalled? Marcus Aurelius, in translation, put it best, about revenge.
“6. The best way of avenging thyself is not to do likewise.”
Book 6, No. 6
Earlier, I was carrying on with the six stages of grief, as outlined above, then getting the quizzical look, and question, “Retribution?”
Yes, that’s a part of it.
Don’t get mad; get even.
What’s the best way to get even? How’s that, what Marcus Aurelius succinctly put?
“6. The best revenge is to not be like that.”
Book VI, No. vi.
There it is. The six stages of grief.
Notes on Grief and Retribution
best pierce the ear of grief
Revenge
A Very Private Grief
Revenge
Celebrating Death
Revenge From Marcus Aurelius
revenge me of my persecutors
