nickngreg | The Loss Challenge (Reply)

I present to you....

The Loss Challenge.

Inspired by the piece below, I'm starting up the multi-genre, multi-fandom challenge and I was hoping to get some fan art to go with it, which will also be a category for submission.

So basically get your creative juices going. It doesn't necessairily have to be anybody from this particular fandom, it could be any semi-recognizable famous person. They can't be happy obviously, but crying or angry works. It's pretty open, have fun.

Loss is something that we all inevitably will have to go through. It's truly impossible to go through life and not be affected by loss one way or another. Loss does different things to different people, and even those with coldest and blackest hearts will still feel it no matter how hard we try not to.

It's human nature.

You can't escape it, because people have tried. And failed, but that's not really what's important.

You can never become acustomed to loss, or prepare yourself for it. You may think you have done the best job and gotten over and past the issue or dying person or whatever it may be but that doesn't work. It may soften the blow, but only by a little. Truly losing somebody or something is different each time and every time is different to fathom. It may be harder or easier, depending on what you're losing and why. You can't guarantee it though. Perhaps you think as you get older and suffer loss more frequently as most people do it will become old hat.

No, sorry.

Losing your best friend and losing your dog are too different things, but each just as disheartening. Loss and grieving and mourning go hand in hand, and all of these thing affect different people differently may it be a dog or your best friend.

Loss is something that we need to realize just happens, and you can't change it. Life without loss isn't really living at all Is that how the saying goes? Well, it's partially right. As said above, even the most robot-like people will eventually face this thing known as loss.

Do you see how this sort of works together? How it makes sense that mourning and grieving and loss are all just things that we can't escape so we might as well understand them a little bit more. All of this has come from studies of basic human behavior and this will help.

This, being the Loss Challenge.

A comm should be up and running soon.

Thanks.