What is Loss?

Ameema
3 min readJan 8, 2021

The state or feeling of grief when deprived of someone or something of value.

Photo by Pawel Kadysz on Unsplash

It’s weird to mourn someone you don’t really know. I’ve never mourned a celebrity or public figure. But for some reason, I am internally mourning the death of “Jeopardy!” host, Alex Trebek.

I’ve had a couple of months to process it and figure out why it is that the death of someone so distant and impersonal to me feels so … personal…

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Ameema

Full-time writer for a travel magazine. Part-time college teacher. Recovering newsie.