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q and r
January 2009 
Question of the Day
Posted on Nov 13th, 2008
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Magen
Magen
How do you comfort those who are sad?
Sad is a universal emotion, though people do not deal with it in uniform ways. I believe that through understanding and recognizing the validity of the emotion that I can comfort someone who is sad. Everyone feels sadness, and its the empathy, the understanding that really makes it okay. Its not normal to be happy all of the time, so sadness is necessary and natural. I dont think its my place or my responsiblity to make the sadness go away, but in time with some wisdom and some friendship the wounds will heal and whoever was feeling the sadness will be a better person. Thats the nature of sadness. Temporary.
The picture of the bruise is of my bruise on my hip from falling off my skateboard. Which was pretty sad :-P
Sad is a universal emotion, though people do not deal with it in uniform ways. I believe that through understanding and recognizing the validity of the emotion that I can comfort someone who is sad. Everyone feels sadness, and its the empathy, the understanding that really makes it okay. Its not normal to be happy all of the time, so sadness is necessary and natural. I dont think its my place or my responsiblity to make the sadness go away, but in time with some wisdom and some friendship the wounds will heal and whoever was feeling the sadness will be a better person. Thats the nature of sadness. Temporary.
The picture of the bruise is of my bruise on my hip from falling off my skateboard. Which was pretty sad :-P
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