Thursday, December 20, 2007
Just randomly posting. (:(Adapted from "LittleBookOfBigEmotions")Sorrow is another powerful and telling basic emotion. Sorrow is the feeling that occur when we lose people, objects, ideas, or opportunities. Our losses may be small or big, concrete or abstract. The feelings invloved can be huge or negligible, and they can be from long ago or from today. Dealing with feelings of sorrow is often difficult. Feeling sad implies being vulnerable, and because sorrow is a personal experience, it causes loneliness.Sorrow, like the other basic emotions, have the tendency to build up. For example, if our beloved pet was killed by a car and we do not cry, the next time we have a loss, we will probably have two griefs to deal with.When life deals us multiple losses, we create unnecessary burdens for ourselves if we continue to postpone the tears and the acknowledgment of pain. Over time, we may find it more difficult to cry about anything. Or we may suddenly cry for reasons totally unrelated to our pain, as when a television commercial sets us off. Or we may even cry in inappropriate places, as when we burst into tears in a meeting at work. We may be storing up such a flood of emotions that we become afraid to feel, especially when we are feeling more vulnerable with a new loss. We may begin to avoid topics that might make us cry. Others may avoid us, frightened by the urgency of our tears when we do express our sadness.
Yours truly, Ms. Dino!
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