Tag: Mournday

I mourn for suicide victims, those people who ran out of perceived resilience and saw no other way. I wish they could have gotten help before that final moment in order to not be lost, confused, and alone, thinking the only way forward was ending their precious life. This story epitomizes a resilient football player. […]

Can I BE any sadder? That is how I feel whenever I process the fact that Matthew Perry is no longer with us. It takes a lot of courage and humility to fully and truly admit your struggles and shortcomings to those around you. Now magnify that pressure with the whole world watching. The life […]

I mourn for all the workaholics out there. Burnout is a very real deal, and many people suffer from it due to their inability to reliably regulate their rest. What is left when you are nothing but a husk? How productive can you perpetually prove to be without rest? When we’re burned out, sometimes we […]

My heart broke last week as I read about the tragic incident involving Liam Payne. My sympathies only strengthened as I learned more about some of the underlying details. Growing up with fame at an early age rarely sets you up for success. It was disheartening to learn that the easiest strategy to secure a […]

When I see and hear about Dikembe Mutombo and his career in the NBA, I often think about an immovable wall. A strong defender who is ready to wag a finger your way in dismissal. The second best ever for all-time blocks in the league.  There are not many people out there who have done […]

I mourn for all of the “control freaks” out there. Therefore, in part, I mourn for myself, too. Accepting more is not always easy. Letting go of the controls for each and every action can be very challenging and difficult. We grow accustomed to calling all our own plays. In doing so, though, how much […]

I mourn for two students and two teachers today: Christian Angulo Mason Schermerhorn Cristina Irimie Richard Aspinwall Last week, a fourteen-year-old in Georgia decided to discompassionately step well outside of his lane. As someone who yearns to understand the world and its workings, I would like to determine why that student exercised such an extreme. […]

I mourn for the loss of loved ones. Will any of us fully and truly avoid these experiences? I doubt it; grief is one of the toughest battles we each face. How we rise to those challenges says so much about our values. Do we honor their memories well, or do we selfishly fight against […]

I mourn for Thích Nhât Hanh; he is nicknamed the father of mindfulness, and he had many other labels and names attributed to him over the years, some good, some bad. No matter what others tried to say or do to him, though, he kept pushing for world peace. Shunned from his home country of […]

When did fake news and alternative facts become a thing? When did we decide it was better to battle disbeliefs rather than rally our reality for real? There are many reasons why I choose to mourn for truth. You can find any answer or support online these days. Does that mean it is all right […]

Everyone in this world is somehow connected. So why not just be nice to everybody? -Richard Simmons Today, I mourn for the loss of Richard Simmons. While I have yet to find any sources or quotes of him advocating for forgiveness specifically, especially for self-forgiveness, I think he epitomized the idea, at least indirectly. A […]

Today, I choose to mourn for the untimely and early death of Michael King, Jr. When I think of courage, he is on the list. Even his father practiced courage after a trip abroad. After feeling inspired by a religious revival in Germany, he courageously chose to change his own name as well as that of […]

I mourn for doomers. The term caught me by surprise last week when I heard it in a TED talk. When I realized what the speaker had said, though, after backtracking once, I was in awe. Imagine existing in such a perpetual fear state that you basically stop living your life. You constantly worry and […]

Today, as the world keeps spinning, I choose to mourn for it. This post is the first time I will talk about it, but I doubt it will be the last time. We, as humans, are destroying Earth. We are currently living in such an imbalanced way as it pertains to this planet. The fact […]

Alejandro Hernandez Fuentes Carlos Daniel Hernández Dorlian Ronial Castillo Cabrera Jose Mynor Lopez Maynor Yassir Suazo Sandoval Miguel Angel Luna Gonzalez Six people died tragically in a terrible bridge collapse on March 26, 2024. We are close to the two-month mark. These people had family and loved ones. I truly hope that the Dali’s owning/managing […]

So it begins…1 – Théoden, Lord of the Mark and King of Rohan …and so it ends. One beacon is no longer lit. I had started planning for a different post this Mournday, but I changed course when I saw the unfortunate news yesterday that Bernard Hill passed on from this life. I stand by […]

I mourn the loss of true love – real, authentic, soul-bonding&binding, ever-lasting LOVE. We all seek it or should seek it IMHO. Maybe you realize you have it with yourself. I am not sure there because I do not feel that way myself, yet I am trying to consider how to fully include the asexual […]

I was not sure at first how or where to start this inaugural Mournday, but then we lost the lives of seven brave and heroic souls approximately seven days ago. They were each fighting the best fight they could. I’m proud of their actions, and I’m heartbroken for their losses. May each and every one […]