Sooner or later, all of us must confront loss. That includes our characters. Losses can be small or great, from an outside point of view. From the inside they may look different.
“a child’s lost doll and a king’s lost crown weigh the same”
It is possible for a loss to look terrible from the outside, while on the inside it is a sort of relief. It is possible for a loss to look quite trivial to outsiders but weigh heavy on the heart of the one who lost. Our values help determine what we feel about things. And sometimes a person clings desperately to something or someone that seems unreal or even self-injurious to an onlooker. The terror of losing privilege appears to drive much of the trouble in America today.
One can lose games, opportunities, property, status, time, love, friendship, family, rights and freedoms, national identity…
And how do we deal with those losses? Weep, rage, withdraw, suck it up, fight like hell, work through it? The possibilities are as many as the people and the griefs.
write a scene depicting a character’s reaction to an unexpected loss.
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