Did We Lose Something Along the Way?

Practicing proper grief in the face of progress

One can argue that humankind, as a singular global community for the first real time ever, has felt pass through them most profoundly for the last few years a wave of grief; a sense that some aspect of human life essential to our antecedents got lost in all the dust kicked up in our march to progress. The way we experience grief is painfully obviously different now. Everyone with an Internet connection — being increasingly most people worldwide — experienced COVID twice, through their…