You know the five stages of dealing with a loss? Denial, sadness, anger, bargaining, and acceptance? Well, I've learned the same can apply to the loss of a friendship.
1. Denial
"Maybe she doesn't mean it, she might just be emotional. I'm sure that by tomorrow she'll be over it and everything will be back to normal."
2. Sadness
"Why did this happen? I can't do anything right! I miss her!"
3. Anger
"I can't believe she would do this. One day I'm her best friend, next thing I know she wants nothing to do with me."
4. Bargaining
"Maybe I can fix this. Maybe I can call her up and apologize and everything will be okay."
5. Acceptance
"We're probably both better off without each other."
(Personally, I'm still working on this last stage.)
I think the hardest part about losing a friend is not knowing how the other person is feeling. Is she happy it's over? Or is she just as sad as I am? Is this loss going to be temporary, or does this person never want to speak to me again? Is she hurting as bad as I am? Was it easy for her to end it? This is what keeps me up at night, not knowing how the other person is doing, what they're thinking, what they're saying, what's going to happen.
You know how sometimes writers will get writers' block? Is there a word for feeling the opposite? Because that's what I'm experiencing right now. The thing about me is I either have a really bad writers' block or I just write all the time. The key is to find something that gets you from having writers' block to suddenly having a lot of inspiration. For me, I get inspired by everyone and everything around me. The best cures I've had for writers' block came from significant events, either in my life or in other people's lives. I get inspired by everyone and everything around me, and when something huge happens in someone's life or in mine (somebody dies, somebody loses a friend, etc.) it sparks a creative interest in me. Suddenly I find myself just writing and writing - sometimes just rambling, other times a full-on story. So even when things get tough for me, I always have something to keep me going. It helps me find a positive thing in such a negative situation.
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