How Long Does It Take? And Other Unanswerable Questions.

   My best lady friends and I had a serious lady friend talk today, and it has brought to my mind a question that I think all of us have asked ourselves at some point in our lives recently. How long does it take to get over things (and other unanswerable questions)?
   If someone psychoanalyst could come up with a chart it might be really helpful. Just a classic line graph of traumatic instances on one side (dog died, breakup, crime scene witness etc) and amounts of time/ suggested routes of recovery on the other (buy commemorative picture frames, listen to Adele, flee the country). It would be really really helpful, that way you know if you are close to being done with that feeling of having an indian sunburn in your guts. People always says its different for everybody, but is there any way to standardize suffering? I think we would all appreciate if there was a designated amount of suffer-time that would immediately terminate upon reaching its total duration.
   The most frustrating thing about trying to get over an emotionally trying situation is that you always wish you were already cured of however you feel (sad, angry, stabby). But it never works that way. You are never finished being upset right when you wish you were. There is a word for people who have emotional light switches and it is sociopath. Until we can all be so lucky as to call ourselves sociopaths, we have to wait out the brainstorms of life - I say brainstorm because it literally feels like a storm is occurring in your brain, you rain from the eyes and nose, and unruly sobbing often frightens dogs.
   It is no consolation that everyone has their brainstorms that take months or even years or even decades to get over. And some seasoned pros will even tell you that you can't get over some things, its just a matter of coming to terms with them. Hopefully you and I never have to be seasoned pros. But I am still keeping my hopes up for the development of a line graph!