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Hi Kak Uti, I'm so glad to read this post, even though I don't know why. It comforts me that grieving might not be over, but it's okay. I've experienced grieving but in a totally different case from Kak Uti's. I lost my cat due to my mistakes. It's been several months, and it's hard to accept that my cat is gone.  It feels like a montage of what-if scenarios played thousand times, making me wonder if I took a different choice in the past. It's hurt, yet I can't stop.

In the midst of desperation, I read some books. One of them is Option B by Sheryl Sandberg, it gives me a different perspective on how to deal with losing someone, but the book that I would really think might comfort Kak Uti is An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination. It's a POV from a mother waiting for the birth of her first child. A complicated essay between tragedy and hope, sure it tells a different story of grieving, but.. the way she writes talking about her baby, lets us rethink how we remember our loved one helps me a lot.

I'm sending many hopes for Kak Uti, I hope you find a good person, nice pasta, a great book, hilarious memes, a new exciting place, weird surprise. xoxo. Hope you feel better.

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