grief

Grief
According to psychologists, people who experience loss pass through a grief process that has several stages:
Denial Anger Depression Acceptance
This process is different for every person and there is no common timetable for getting through it. Some people go back and forth between stages, get stuck at some point or experience more than one stage at a time.
Recently, many of us experienced the loss of a good friend through paragliding. It is not my intention to discuss that loss here. We each have to deal with it in our own way. Instead I would like to discuss a different kind of loss--the loss of our flying innocence. Though we may not realize it, this loss requires us to go through stages much like the classic grief process. Perhaps you will recognize yourself or your friends in this description.