Tag: loss

Black Tax and the Grief of Living – Yasir

The grief of living is not the grief of losing. It is the grief of trying, of being in the middle of something hard with no clear end date, no guarantee, no moment where someone officially tells you it is okay to feel how you feel. It is the grief of a salary already spent. Of a father’s diagnosis that rearranged everything and the relief that he is fine now, which somehow does not cancel the weight of what it took to get there.

CALL FOR ESSAY SUBMISSIONS: WRITING LOSS & GRIEF

Grief and loss are as universal as life and death. They are footnotes punctuating our moments of joy and happiness and love.

From Antigone to Things Fall Apart, from Beloved to An Equal Music, some of the world’s most searing stories have been written from nibs dipped in the ink of loss and grief.

And now, it’s your turn.

Thomas Hardy once wrote that “Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.”

Mukoma wa Ngugi’s “We, The Scarred” presents a catalogue of losses – Precious Nzeakor

There is a lot of loss recorded in this book, which is very telling of how this desire and longing to hold on to something we cannot control and the loss of such things causes us to spiral in different directions and to find stability only when the gap is filled. At the core of this book is the fight for the truth and all the obstacles that stand in the way of that