just wanna talk about the mental health aspect of this news today. For a lot of us, this might be the first celebrity death that hits close to home. we might be asking ourselves why we feel these powerful emotions for someone we didn't know personally.
We are grieving more that just the individual today, we also grieve for our own emotional connections to johnny. Watching him play with friends, family, our community of flames fans and hockey fans creates a deep emotional bond, its painful when its severed. It also targets our identities; as flames fans we share that collective identity that johnny symbolizes and it feels like part of that is gone now. We mourn both the past and also what could have been.
it's important to remember self care today, to reach out to others and share our grief. check in on your fellow fans and share a memory or two. eat a good meal, get some rest, take a break from the screens.
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