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CathyTea
10 years agoLegend
"Carewren123;13671694" wrote:
I was in quite the creative slump for a while as a result. But isn't it great that we have the wonderful community? We're not alone in our losses. That's a comforting thought to me.
I've been thinking about this comment, Carewren. After my dad passed, I stopped writing for several years. At the time, I felt that it was a lack of creative energy. Now, over a decade later, I see that the grieving process is a creative act. When someone who's been a big part of us moves on, we, in essence, need to recreate ourselves--integrating that person into us even more fully--and that is such an act of creation. All of my creative energies were involved in that integration act during those years of grief. I came out of those years a different person, with a view of the world that is different--and my writing and what I have to say is different, too. Sometimes, living is our act of creation.