2006-12-21 11:13:24 · 20 answers · asked by simplyJESSE 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
A fortune can be regained.
When you grieve for a loved one, you are mainly grieving for yourself. The loved one will always remain and be a part of you. And there will almost certainly be others you love.
"MARGARET, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Leaves, like the things of man, you
With your fresh thoughts care for, can you?
Ah! as the heart grows older
It will come to such sights colder
By and by, nor spare a sigh
Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie.
And yet you will weep and know why.
Now no matter, child, the name:
Sorrow's springs are the same.
Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed
What heart heard of, ghost guessed:
It is the blight man was born for,
It is Margaret you mourn for."
Gerard Manley Hopkins
But courage, once lost, is like virginity lost; it can never be truly regained. You lose a part of yourself forever.
That is when you should really grieve.
2006-12-21 11:21:42 · answer #1 · answered by johnslat 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You never really have to grieve except for a few minutes at a funeral. a day after getting fired, and no one can ever lose courage can they??????. If I lost my fortune, I would grieve forever and ever. Money is everything and the more the better. But grieving is only a temporary thing. Just cry and get over it and then get back up and do better the next time.
2006-12-21 11:26:24 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Since grief exists on many different levels, I think people grieve in some way when anything in their life takes a negative turn. From the choices you listed, I'd say the greatest grief comes from losing a loved one or loss of one's own courage. Both invoke permanent change in a person and cause the person to feel disenfranchised from others. Both invoke a sense of great loss in a person.
2006-12-21 13:38:47 · answer #3 · answered by ncrebel21 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To me losing a loved one would be the worst loss that I would grieve about. Fortune is nothing to me and courage although important is not nearly as important as the people I love!
2006-12-21 11:16:49 · answer #4 · answered by Spectacular Wife <3 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Grief is relative.
I grieved -- and still do -- my best friend when she died three years ago. I did not "grieve" when my paternal grandmother died because she had already emotionally distanced herself from her family.
Regarding the need to grieve when you lose your fortune or your courage... again, it depends entirely on the person.
BTW Jess-- you just always ask the best questions:)
2006-12-21 17:37:34 · answer #5 · answered by Voodoid 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Inherent in any loss, or any change, is loss which may cause grieving. The most obvious of which, of course, is death of someone you care about or know well.
Dr. Marion Kubler-Ross developed the five stages of grieving:
Disbelief, Denial, Anger, Bargaining/Depression and Acceptance.
When I lose someone or something I will write each heading and then write what that means to me in that particular instance.
This is very comforting and helpful in bringing the feelings to the surface and releasing them.
2006-12-21 15:27:30 · answer #6 · answered by concernedjean 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think there are many levels of grief so that you would mourn all the losses you listed in varying degrees. The pain of the grief might last longer from losing a loved one (if you meant that they had died) because they would not return. You can make more money and you can do something brave again, but you can't make the dead come back to life.
2006-12-21 11:24:44 · answer #7 · answered by rileysmile 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nothing compares to the pain of losing someone close.
Fortune - you can gain it back; courage, the same as well.
Losing a loved one is actually a culmination of the abovementioned really... it's like losing your 'fortune', 'courage'; someone you've built your life with... it's an incomparable feeling that's unmatched.
2006-12-21 13:21:25 · answer #8 · answered by ViRg() 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Money never makes me cry. I can and have lived with and without it.
Courage is just anger manifested, I think. Doesn't cause me grief. I can't stand being mad all the time anyway.
But A LOVED ONE "?" I lost my twin brother 23 months and 21 days ago, Dawg...I KNOW I WILL ALWAYS GRIEVE his death.
2006-12-21 14:07:33 · answer #9 · answered by BabyGirl~ 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Fortunes can be regained, and courage recovered, but you cannot get a loved once back once they die. You grieve the hardest when a loved one dies.
2006-12-21 11:21:34 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋