I’d been experiencing intense waves of grief, and I hate when someone tells me what they think I should do, especially when it’s self-serving - more to do with their discomfort at someone else’s pain - so they say things to make themselves feel better. But most people, it seems, just don’t really know what to say when you’re hurting. And the suggestion to get closer to nature when grieving was nice, of course. These pallid remarks weren’t personal, I know. “It will be good to get your hands dirty with soil,” she said. “Watering it will keep you from being depressed,” another friend mumbled as she left my apartment, gazing downward sheepishly. “It’s good to bring in new life,” one friend said tritely. It might have seemed appropriate, albeit a cliché, to get a new houseplant when my husband and I separated.
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