questions about grief and loss
for the things and people that are gone, and the strange shapes missing them takes. there is no fixing here. just somewhere to put it down for a minute.
today
every day there's one live question, the same for everyone. answer it anonymously, see what other people said. it's all gone in seven days.
answer today's question →- what are you carrying that’s almost light enough to set down?
- what are you doing because stopping would mean grieving?
- what are you doing to fill a space that’s actually grief?
- what are you grieving in advance to soften the blow?
- what are you grieving that hasn’t happened yet?
- what are you grieving that you were told to be glad about?
- what are you grieving that you wouldn’t call grief?
- what are you holding because letting go feels like losing?
- what are you protecting that’s already gone?
- what are you still waiting for someone to undo?
- what did this year take that you haven’t totaled up?
- what did this year teach you that you didn’t want to learn?
- what did you bury that keeps coming up?
- what did you bury that the body kept the receipt for?
- what did you call "closure" that wasn’t?
- what did you cry at recently, alone?
- what did you decide to stop hoping for?
- what did you lose that you haven't told anyone about?
- what did you lose this year that no one sent a card for?
- what did you make peace with that still wakes you?
- what did you mistake for moving on?
- what did you outlast that nearly took you?
- what did you pretend not to hear because you couldn’t carry it?
- what did you survive that made you gentler?
- what did you survive that you never named?
- what made you laugh when you were supposed to be sad?
- what would you say to the person who left?
- what would you tell them at the funeral you can’t say now?
- what's the friendship you've been letting fade?
- what's the thing you'd cry about if you started?
- what's the thing you'd grieve if you let yourself?
- what's the thing you'd say to your dad if he was here?
- who did you let go of that you still talk to in your head?
- who do you miss most when you’re in a crowd?
- who do you miss that you were supposed to be glad to lose?
- who do you want to find your way back to?
- who do you want to make proud that’s no longer here?
- who would you tell "i made it" if you could?
- whose absence have you stopped properly noticing?
- whose name made you flinch this week?