# That Discomfort You’re Feeling Is Grief

<https://hbr.org/2020/03/that-discomfort-youre-feeling-is-grief>

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## What Jamie wrote

This resonates with me, and I think calling it what it is, grief, may help.

> Yes, and we’re feeling a number of different griefs. We feel the world has changed, and it has. We know this is temporary, but it doesn’t feel that way, and we realize things will be different. Just as going to the airport is forever different from how it was before 9/11, things will change and this is the point at which they changed. The loss of normalcy; the fear of economic toll; the loss of connection. This is hitting us and we’re grieving. Collectively. We are not used to this kind of collective grief in the air.

I shared with Tammy last week when I was [getting cheeseburgers from one of our favorite places](https://micro.thingelstad.com/2020/03/22/getting-takeout-from.html) that I felt incredibly sad being there. It is usually a busy place, and nobody was there. One other person showed up to get takeout as well. But the streets were really empty. Almost no pedestrian activity, in a normally fairly busy spot in South Minneapolis. I couldn't have named it, but grief is the right word to describe the feeling.

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