The cinema, punk music and swimming helped me through grief | Letters
Rachel Walsh responds to an article by Georgina Elliott in which she describes the comfort she felt sitting alone in the cinema after losing her brotherI could relate to Georgina...
By Guardian Staff · The Guardian Opinion
Rachel Walsh responds to an article by Georgina Elliott in which she describes the comfort she felt sitting alone in the cinema after losing her brother I could relate to Georgina Elliott’s finding comfort and relief in the dark at the cinema ( The one change that worked: numb with grief, I sat in the dark, surrounded by strangers – and began to heal, 12 October ). After my mum died, I felt like a balloon floating further and further from my life, incorporeal and ghostly. The cinema was a world within the world to live someone else’s life, experience their triumphs and adventures, and escape the sharpness of my own painful reality. Continue reading...