Hi! Just stopping in to ruin your Thursday night, and make you sob yourself to sleep. If that’s cool with you, read on!
Sheryl Sandberg, the Chief Operating Officer of Facebook, lost her husband Dave Goldberg in a freak accident a month ago. Today, she has posted one of the most emotional essays you will have ever read on her Facebook page.
She speaks about the Jewish concept of ‘sheloshim’, which is the 30 days of intense grieving after losing a spouse or immediate family member.
Her raw honesty, strength, and willingness to vocalise her severe grief will inspire you, but it’ll also make you cry. A LOT.
This is a fair warning: DO NOT read this if you have recently lost someone close to you.
Today is the end of sheloshim for my beloved husband—the first thirty days. Judaism calls for a period of intense…
Posted by Sheryl Sandberg on Wednesday, 3 June 2015
After this we’ll kill some puppies in front of you, ruin your happy relationship, then give you too many gin & tonics, shall we? Great.
Story & Image via Facebook
