In what ways can you relate grief to a pig? You might relate grief in your home, office building, or at your friends’ home to the unwanted presence of a pig there.
Unless a family member or friend is in excruciating pain from an illness like terminal cancer or suffers from an advanced stage of dementia, you don’t want that person to die.
Maybe you relate a funeral home as a venue for a social event to one in a pig pen. You don’t want to be there.
If you could avoid grief and the need for sympathy cards, you probably would. You can relate to disliking the need for those cards in your mailbox to your dislike of looking in your mailbox and finding a pig there. You probably wouldn’t want that to happen.
You might relate the smell of a pig to going to a dumpster or garbage can to test fragrances for your next bottle of perfume or cologne. You wouldn’t want the funeral home to prepare your loved one’s body to smell that way.
You might relate the big ugly nose or snout of a pig to an unwanted facial feature. Most likely, you’ve never heard of anyone who asked for cosmetic surgery to have a snout like a pig to attend a funeral.
Perhaps you relate the large hairy ears of a pig to the large hole in your heart that grief leaves you. You don’t care for that large hole in your heart any more than you care for those large pig ears. Imagine putting a beautiful set of earrings on those big hairy ears.
The next time you lose a family member, friend, or coworker, you might say, “I can relate grief to a pig and don’t want it.”
Copyright © by Yvonne Ortega III.VI.MMXVII
