He was on the verge of being consumed by memory, but instead of mourning before that pile of rocks, he dusted off his shirt — his badge, the epaulets.
On her return, finding her young husband Dumuzi feasting instead of mourning for her, Inanna was seized with jealousy and designated him that substitute.
Instead of mourning Facebook's inability to surpass the market capitalization of General Electric, we should be celebrating the success of companies that have navigated early-stage minefields.
His other mission, he said, is keeping Winchester's memory alive in a way that celebrates — instead of mourns — his life.
But instead of mourning, Kreon does something positive to stop the atrocities; he tries to create structure, a society based on clear laws, on citizenship.
The American Jewish World Service, which works on everything from microcredit in El Salvador to women's rights in Rwanda, has more than doubled its intake of volunteers in the past four years.Then there is the growth of synagogues that welcome gay and transsexual Jews; of Jewish cultural centres; and of museums that celebrate Jewish history instead of mourning the Holocaust.
Back in 1917 Sigmund Freud had written: "Mourning is regularly the reaction to the loss of a loved person, or to the loss of some abstraction which has taken the place of one … In some people the same influences produce melancholia instead of mourning and we consequently suspect them of a pathological disposition".
Since the end of the war in 1995, instead of mourning their horrific losses, Bosnian citizens have been forced, by local and international figures alike, to accept that they can only speak and act if they embrace the status of victims, off the backs and bodies of whom the ethnically divided elites can get rich.
So instead of mourning the loss of ARM, we should celebrate it as an achievement and move on to the next wave of British success stories.
