Definitely. Sometimes just saying "do something to take your mind off it" really is the best advice.
I lost my Dad last year too, to cancer. Grief really is a learning process, especially when it's the first time you lose someone really close. I've let myself get borderline-suicidal over it (well combined with other, perhaps lesser worries) a few times, but it's learning to tune out the negativity.
At the end of the day, you have to make good stuff happen yourself, can't sit around waiting for it to come to you.
I lost my Dad last year too, to cancer. Grief really is a learning process, especially when it's the first time you lose someone really close. I've let myself get borderline-suicidal over it (well combined with other, perhaps lesser worries) a few times, but it's learning to tune out the negativity.
At the end of the day, you have to make good stuff happen yourself, can't sit around waiting for it to come to you.
"Adulthood is like looking both ways before you cross the road, and then getting hit by an airplane" - sarcasm_only
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie