13 May 2023 — SADNESS

Feeling SAD is a part of our lives. We feel sad when people we love die and when things don’t work out as we wished. And yet, we often try to deny that we are feeling SAD as we entertain the idea that we should be happy and accepting of what happens to us and tend to feel that when we feel SAD we are letting ourselves down in some way.

But ‘sadness’ is just a feeling which we choose to feel like any other feeling and today I am feeling sad because it is the anniversary of the death of someone very close to me and remembering the good times we shared only increases the feelings of SADNESS.

PONDER POINTS: on reading this I felt ….. and my thoughts were …