Shorouk ♍’s Reviews > The Year of Magical Thinking > Status Update

-People who have recently lost someone have a certain look, recognizable maybe only to those who have seen that look on their own faces.
-The look is one of extreme vulnerability, nakedness, openness.

Persons under the shock of genuine affliction are not only upset mentally but are all unbalanced physically. No matter how calm and controlled they seemingly may be, no one can under such circumstances be normal. Their disturbed circulation makes them cold, their distress makes them unstrung, sleepless. Persons they normally like, they often turn from.

" Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes and obliterate the dailiness of life. "