The Grieving Process

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I’m hoping that by publicly exploring my grief over the loss of the second test in Mohali, I might be able to help other fans of Australian Cricket man up.

Grief is painful and at times seems bottomless. Intense emotions and mood changes are a normal part of grieving.

Grief is a natural reaction to death and other major losses and grieving is a very personal experience. There isn’t a right or a wrong way. How we grieve is determined by out culture, our relationship to the person and the way they died, as well as our individual personality. Some stages of grief are commonly experienced although not everyone will go through all these stages. Grieving is a fluid process and people may experince many different emotions in one day.
Mental Health Association

There are several stages of grief, and it’s important to realise that everybody is different. Some people grow hair on their cheeks, for example.

Over the last 5 days I have gone through Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Sadness, and now finally Acceptance.

It’s OK to cry, but only if you’re a former captain from Western Australia. Otherwise drink some concrete, bítch.

9 thoughts on “The Grieving Process”

  1. Come now Moses, this is hardly the act of an Aussie.

    Pull your head up.

    Its only 1 game and Aus only need to win 1 game from the next two to retain the trophy !

  3. Fuck that – I’m still angry!

    Is anyone else seeing shadows of Ashes 2005 here?

    - Ponting off the rails because he and the team thought they were the big shit and now just looks like the oppo’s bitch even more

    - Bowling attack minus McGrath that seems to be playing on a different pitch to the oppo. Anyone heard of swing or spin bowling before? Troy Cooley (you seemed to do it for the poms)? Anyone?

    - Matthew bloody Hayden “playing himself into form”

    - Suicides in last overs before lunch, tea and stumps.

    Fark!

    How do I get to ‘bargaining’?

  4. G’Day Gagger and cheers for the comment.

    Time heals all wounds, you just have to take it at your own pace…

    I think the tall poppy syndrome is going overdrive so the general feeling is Australia’s reign of terror might be coming to an end, that Mohali was a turning point and we’ve got no hope for a spin bowler.

    I’m calling bullshít on that. We were spanked in one test, but lets not lose perspective

    • Stuart Clark was injured
    • We were doing the spanking just a week ago
    • India just lost a series in Sri Lanka, and just 3 months ago they lost a test to Sri Lanka by an innings and 239 runs! India are not the all powerful force in world cricket yet
    • we lost the toss on a belter of a wicket
    • it’s only a week since we were dominating them in the first test
    • turning points are next to impossible to pick. It’s just that ‘everyone’ wants Australia bought back to the field. Stuff that, we rock
    • another beer bullet point and this is a new blog post, not just a mere comment
    • a new spinner always steps up. we just don’t know his name yet.
    • we’ve still got the Ashes

  5. as for Hayden playing himself into form, I reckon he’s playing himself into his 50′s..

  7. Gagger, now you’ve left the field totally open for mosses to brag about how he got his beer bullets on word press.

    Also seems like you are well on the way to bargaining !

  9. Well, I’m glad you asked about my Beer Bullets, I thought them the most important customisation here thus far. Maybe one day you can have little Kaplan bullets… perhaps

    You just get a small gif file and upload it to your server…. oh, it’s the ‘your server’ bit that makes it a bit tough with blogger heh :)

    [quote comment=""]Ps – Are you guys buying this
    http://fly-slip.blogspot.com/2008/10/ricky-ponting-law-abiding-captain.html/quote
    Glad to see you’re already taking advantage of the “do-follow” links Damith!
    I left a comment on that crock by RP over you fly-slip