As Emily Dickinson knew, unfeeling rocks can remind us of death, but they can also provide perspective on our human troubles in the grand scheme of things.
Scrolling through Twitter one day very early in the COVID-19 pandemic, I saw a tweet that struck me as equal parts mirthless and true. “Things will be fine, eventually, in thousands of years, for rocks,” quipped comedian Donni Saphire. It reminded me of a saying my mother used to trot out when I was growing up, whenever I got exercised by some trivial contretemps or other — bad hair day, missed party, hallway snub. “In the grand scheme of things,” she would drawl, “it just doesn’t signify.
“But how do you feel?” she pressed. “I feel fine, really,” I kept repeating, smiling apologetically, aware that something in my response to the falling-apart of my own body was falling short of what she expected. When I read my clinical report afterward, I found this: “Patient seems to be speaking with some isolation of affect that is noticeable .
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