Before posting on this Discussion Board, please read through this description of grief from “An old guy” on Reddit. Reflect on what you read.

The “old guy” writes:

As for grief, you’ll find it comes in waves. When the ship is first wrecked, you’re drowning, with wreckage all around you. Everything floating around you reminds you of the beauty and the magnificence of the ship that was, and is no more. And all you can do is float. You find some piece of wreckage and you hang on for a while. Maybe it’s some physical thing. Maybe it's a happy memory or a photograph. Maybe it's a person who is also floating. For a while all you can do is float. Stay Alive. In the beginning, the waves are 100 feet tall and crash over you without mercy. They come 10 seconds apart and don't even give you time to catch your breath. All you can do is hang on and float. After a while, maybe weeks, maybe months, you’ll find the waves are still 100 feet tall, but they come further apart. When they come, they still crash all over you and wipe you out. But in between you can breathe, you can function. You never know what’s going to trigger the grief. It might be a song, a picture, a street intersection, the smell of a cup of coffee. It can be just about anything… and the waves comes crashing. But in between waves, there is life. Somewhere down the line, and its different for everybody, you find the waves are only 80 feet tall. Or 50 feet tall. And while they still come, they come further apart. You can see them coming. An anniversary, a birthday, or Christmas, or landing at O’Hare. You can see it coming, for the most part, and prepare yourself. And when it washes over you, you know that somehow, you will again, come out the other side. Soaking wet, sputtering, still hanging on to some tiny piece of the wreckage, but you’ll come out. Take it from an old guy. The waves never stop coming, and somehow, you don’t really want them to. But you learn that you’ll survive them. And other waves will come. And you’ll survive them too. If you’re lucky, you’ll have lots of scars from lots of loves. And lots of shipwrecks.” (Reddit, 2014)

 

Mentorship

Good morning ladies and gentlemen and welcome to my presentation where I will give recommendations for CSR projects. The company should start a mentorship program to mentor youths and young professionals without directly giving them an internship. Though the company provides training to a few people, many children don't have mentorship and may lack a chance to utilize their potential in life; however, when the management decides to allocate resources for outreaching the young people in the society, it will make a significant impact in uplifting the lives and creating future leaders. Mentoring can involve online activity whereby mentors will have email communication with the mentees instead of a one-on-one move. Some sessions, however, will involve one on one mentorship activity depending on the members available.

Repairing ecosystem

This idea involves trying to save the life of endangered and vulnerable species. I suggest trying to keep the coastal life since the ones that suffer the most damage due to the petroleum and synthetic waste that find their way into the oceans. This process will involve conserving the coastal region by regrown the lost vegetation and clearing the dirt and debris from the water surface. Plastic waste can be recollected for recycling, and other waste will be collected for disinfection. This move is critical because it will help clear the waters in a portion of the coastal region and even restore the ecosystem in that region due to the elimination of the pollutants. 

Scavenger program

This program entails collecting fresh edibles from restaurants and taking them to the needy in the streets or the homeless persons. The company employees should do this in groups, and this should be done once or twice a month to cater to the homeless and needy In society. The company can also collaborate with hotels with edible clean, leftover food that other families can use. Our organization can collect them and place them in suitable locations where the relevant target people will collect them. Teaming up with several hotels will ensure that they have sufficient food stumps to feed a good number of people in society. This will go a long way in empowering the needy and reducing starvation among homeless people.

Reality TV competition

The organization should come up with reality to competition that entails the team members competing for a specific price and drawing attention to one or several of them in the society, such as health issues. The reality to the program will entail an activity such as surviving at the coast or the beach or even out of two activity that engages the employees of the reorganization. In such a program, the members will compete and actively participate and invite competitors from other organizations to compete. The proceeds from this show will supply the needy people in society and helping them out in times of their needs. This program will be good for team building and helping humanity.

Grief

• Is this an accurate description of grief in your experience?

Grief cannot be defined in a better way than how this article has described it. The author uses an image of a wrecked ship to represent a broken life with memories of how good life was before the grief. Significantly, the victim has to hold on to the existing wrecks of life. Additionally, the author describes grief as a sequence of sad events which occurs 10 seconds apart. I agree with his description of grief and various events which triggers grief such as music or pictures.

• What is an example of a “piece of wreckage” that you have or could hold onto?

Grief is accelerated by various factors that the author is referring to as wreckage. Multiple factors trigger different forms of distress. When experiencing grief, I would hold on to the wreckage, such as paintings and pictures. Songs could also remind me of the lowest moment, especially when I am resting in the house; therefore, I tend to avoid them. Painting allows me to forget the reason for grief, thus separating the waves.  

• How does reading this help someone who is grieving (if at all?)

The reading allows one to understand various waves causing grief and how one can avoid them. Further, the reader understands that there are multiple wreckages that they can hold onto to relieve them from distress.

• Three things you can do to help someone who is grieving

Being a good listener to the grieving party.

Offering words that can heal a grieving heart.

Being available and staying connected to the victim.

• What is something on the list that I think would have actually helped me when I was grieving and why?

Among the listed items above, I think being a good listener would help me when I am grieving because I can share my feelings with my partner, which lessens the burden in my heart. Consequently, this offers comfort as the listening partner sympathizes with me. When a person listens without interrupting or giving advice, it makes me feel better and makes me understand that they recognize my agony and loss.