{"id":194,"date":"2007-10-04T13:48:05","date_gmt":"2007-10-04T18:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/?p=194"},"modified":"2007-10-04T14:46:29","modified_gmt":"2007-10-04T19:46:29","slug":"grief-trigger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/2007\/10\/04\/grief-trigger\/","title":{"rendered":"Grief trigger"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mine is Graveyard of the Fireflies<\/a>, what’s yours? Movies, books, etc., have mad me sad, no doubt. I’m man<\/strike> geek<\/strike> man enough to admit I cried when Lorien returned for Sheridan or when Billy dies mid-trial on Ally MacBeal (what?). But neither of those things inspired grief.<\/p>\n

I don’t know what causes it, but Graveyard haunts me.<\/p>\n

I hadn’t seen it since college, but it recently appeared on a list of “Great Films Too Painful to Watch Twice<\/a>” from The Onion’s A\/V Club. I remembered it as a sad, depressing film, but it never inspired grief. So, maybe it is the fact that I’m a father of a child who could, from a distance, pass for Setsuko\u00c2\u00a0 – or the fact that I was reading the article at 3:30 in the morning — but it really affected me. So much so that I’m blogging about a day and a half later.<\/p>\n

I just had to watch a bit of the video like the clip linked to above, but I am not sure why. Is it a form of catharsis to some grief I never knew I had.\u00c2\u00a0 Or is it possible to have a…for lack of a better word…pre-cathartic moment in response to the fear of loss, which kind of fits the fatherhood notion above.<\/p>\n

Now, I’m ever the reductionist, so now I’ll have to take a look into the root causes of grief, evolutionary advantages, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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