The Five Stages

Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance.

These are the 5 stages of grief introduced by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. Upon knowing your own grief, identifying and confronting them seem to be a rational thing to do.

Normally, others would assume that grieving is like a marathon - starting at Denial, cross the 3 stages like checkpoints, and finishing at Acceptance.

Not true. As I see it, the process is reversible (like a ping pong ball on a ping pong table bouncing thru and fro between players), and it's always tarrying in between stages.
Ughh... the pain - excruciating.

God damn it.

***Extras***
Most of the time, inner dialogues appear in my mind. Sometimes you don't realise it because ... i don't know - careless perhaps? Here are my dialogues for the 5 stages,

Denial - Why? Why? Why?
Anger - Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!
Bargaining - Maybe? Maybe? Maybe?
Depression - Shit... shit... shit...
Acceptance - N/A yet.