Thread by @annehelen

Wrote about the bewildering mix of excitement and hesitancy as we start to make plans (plans!) again for the not-so-far future — and making room for all the unexpected ways grief is going to come for us in the months to come:

annehelen.substack.com/p/no-im-not-re…

How do I articulate unspeakable excitement to gather again *and* having no idea how my mind and body is going to react to a social life? The closest I can get = being so so so excited for the first day of school but we pull up to the front door & I can't get out of the car

Someone just commented that they feel ready to lick their friends, which is a perfect encapsulation of how weird we're all going to be for, like, at LEAST six months

The number of people who have directed me to this illustrative tweet to accompany this piece:

https://twitter.com/AlexJamesFitz/status/1367572021517946881?s=20

This is all my way of saying I know what it's like to try not to grieve and just throw yourself back into your life — and it's come back to kick my ass in so many unanticipated ways. I hope we can find space, personal and societal, for all this loss:

annehelen.substack.com/p/no-im-not-re…

Also this post is ostensibly about your own social life but bosses and HR departments: the great grief is still coming and it would be very smart to expand your leave policies liberally to accommodate it