Wow, people are very opinionated on here. I can see how it could seem personal to some people. TBH, there’s really nothing wrong with that. People are entitled to feel how they feel. Many kids work really hard to get to this point, and I’m not talking about just the past couple months…literally worked their whole high school lives for this moment (grades, ECs, test scores, etc.). These kids have earned feeling however they want to feel and they’re entitled to grieve how they want to grieve. Just because it’s not personal to you/other people, doesn’t make it less valid.
BTW, it reminds me of the Meg Ryan/Tom Hanks scene in You’ve Got Mail.
[Joe Fox]: It wasn’t… personal.
[Kathleen Kelly]: What is that supposed to mean? I am so sick of that. All that means is that it wasn’t personal to you. But it was personal to me. It’s personal to a lot of people. And what’s so wrong with being personal, anyway?