However agonising the insight and mourning might be, these must always be preferable to allowing loss to contaminate the totality of one's perspective.
When the yield curve inverted last October, with yields on long-term bonds falling below those on short-term ones, analysts agonised about the signal being sent.
It focuses on the kidnapping of Diana Turbay, a journalist and daughter of a former president, tracing the agonising choices of officials torn between national interest and personal ties.
" Did I say that? " said Phineas Nigellus, idly examining his silk gloves. " Now, if you will excuse me, I have better things to do than listen to adolescent agonising...good-day to you."
Though he dreaded humiliation more than anything in the world, he hugged himself for two or three days at the thought of the agonising joy of humiliating himself to the Glory of God.
Prayer gives us a sense of sharing our burdens, of not being alone. Few of us are so strong that we can bear our heaviest burdens, our most agonising troubles, all by ourselves.