Watch the full episode: https://youtube.com/live/0ezg3EpvB48

Read the Substack piece: https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/raw

It is a gut wrenching feeling to lose a beloved pet and a huge adjustment.

Thank you guys. I needed this. Going though it right now ❤ sorry for your loss.

So sorry for your loss...

My deepest condolences for your loss 😢

I lost my husband 5 years ago in November. It was during COVID and I will leave the details for another post. The grief was unbearable, unfathomable and unrelenting.  I talked to my old therapist about it at the time and he said something so sage it allowed me to breathe. He said, “You’re trying to make something reasonable out of something completely unreasonable.“  He was right; there is nothing reasonable about death. As for grief? Someone else told me something equally sage at the time: “Grief is love that has nowhere to go.” I am happy to say my love has two places to go now: I have two precious granddaughters, ages one and two. So there is hope and there is healing… But there is always sadness.

We give kids dogs to teach the giving and getting of love AND the grief that always follows.

"Parting is such sweet sorrow."

Grieving the living from estrangement is a whole different.!

God bless you both, we all owe you so much!!

Thank you for sharing. Have been thinking about this subject a lot as I am grieving the loss of my father - who was a kind man. Another thing I think AI will not fully be able to capture - true human kindness. Like you said - cluster B personalities can try to imitate but cannot capture the essence. This gives me hope in retaining and discerning humanness in the age of AI.

Going through this grief right alongside you both

Living beings feel grief, machines do not.

The ineffable, as all feelings actually are. We give names to bodily sensations which may or may not be sensed and felt, yet the experience is only familiar to the degree that we've been provided with reasonable containers and community, and perhaps been here before.  Grief, as described in language, includes denial (muscular tension and distraction-anxiety), bargaining (above and below reality, but confusion and frustration seem likely cohorts in name), anger (likely experienced, depending on one's relationship to this energy, as heat in the body, and/or contraction in hands, jaw, and elsewhere- a holding in.  Some will find many a reason to express this in relation to commerce or others. Depression, which is/was often conflated with a condition to be "treated", in and of itself.  It is a weighty sensation of the body, a sluggishness, a lack of energy, and often a feeling of joylessness (absence of same), and finally, acceptance. Maybe this is peace? Maybe "life as usual", and this takes how long?  As long as it takes.  There's little encouragement to learn to allow grief to work through us, so consider this that reassurance.  There's no right way, but that which we won't feel doesn't magically disappear.  It's good to hear, in my opinion, Bret and Heather discuss their respective experiences, yet, of course unfortunate their loss.  Love all the doggos.

We need our grief. It is important. I'm sorry, though, you've lost your pet. We love them so much. Ai can't love.

A wise man mourns neither the living nor the dead.

Chase Hughes has a great video explaining Grief on YT. He says you aren't only grieving the loss of the person, or pet etc. You are grieving the version of WHO YOU were with that person or pet etc.

Question , am I a bad person for feeling this way. Sadly my wife of 35 years started waking up after COVID ,   After all these years of her  rolling her eyes at me and thinking I was a conspiracy theorist .    She has been awoken .    I wish I could take it all back  - the smile that used to light up a room has faded .

She occasionally says  ,I can’t believe you were right about this or that .   She was happier when she thought I was just a little bit nutty .   Sad times to be alive , and to experience the unfolding events of our age , the man made financial and social collapse of the world our children are facing.  

I occasionally stair at people who stand in-front of me complaining about the state of the world whilst they have just brought a new baby into the world .  

I want to grab them by their shoulders and give them a shake  And ask them why the hell did the Just choose to bring another young life into this world  in the face of the things they have just been complaining about 🤦🏻‍♀️ .   I’m sorry but if you have noticed how bad the world is getting and you still bring a new life into this world YOUR A SELFISH FOOL .

However I don’t say anything to them , I just feel sadness for the child who  had no choice in the matter , Yet is going to feed the machine .

Based.

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