DTH-XI-0005
“I'm angry that someone died. I feel cheated.”
Anger is grief with nowhere to go. It is real and it deserves to be acknowledged — not managed away, not rushed past. The anger tells you how much the person mattered. Let it speak without letting it govern. Grief contains many things, and anger is one of the most honest.
Your Practice
Write for 10 uninterrupted minutes about the anger — not to resolve it, but to give it room and language. Don't edit yourself. At the end, read what you wrote and underline the sentence that most accurately names what you lost. That sentence is where the real grief lives.
The Architects
“How long will you wait before you demand the best of yourself?”
— Epictetus, Discourses, Book I