tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17192698.post1385878801269568217..comments2023-12-25T02:46:52.723-04:00Comments on Awareness: love like you've never been hurt.awarenesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06098432781380754899noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17192698.post-31374747245968381282009-12-18T16:46:10.772-04:002009-12-18T16:46:10.772-04:00You got me crying What a beautiful story and a won...You got me crying What a beautiful story and a wonderful message of compassion Arohanui MarjaMarjahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17458942200244031009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17192698.post-44851938340265573912009-12-15T10:22:38.934-04:002009-12-15T10:22:38.934-04:00Gypsy.... may we all reach out to them, especially...Gypsy.... may we all reach out to them, especially at this time of year.awarenesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06098432781380754899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17192698.post-19954965901757773592009-12-14T05:50:50.142-04:002009-12-14T05:50:50.142-04:00I have tears rolling down my face for all the peop...I have tears rolling down my face for all the people out there who don't have anyone who thinks of them or cares about them. What a desperate, lonely existence that must be.Savannahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05185485331789471194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17192698.post-87116915421471153992009-12-11T08:39:13.907-04:002009-12-11T08:39:13.907-04:00Scarletina.... I try to as well. There are times ...Scarletina.... I try to as well. There are times when it feels overwhelming though luckily for me it never lasts too long. Part of that I think for you and I and many is that we have learned strategies and we're emotionally literate in our understanding of feelings. And the other part is that we are more aware as adults of where to seek help and of the fact that we have the capacity to change. The ones who don't have the life tools to pull themselves out of the darkness, or the ones who are HIT with some many tragic events all at once and can't cope or see that there are others feeling the same way..... I worry about them.<br /><br />Selma. Good on you! I honestly don't know if I could do that. It's been a while since i worked in a senior's home.... the last time just ripped me up. But, maybe I'm in a different space now and could cope with it. <br />The trick is to get it to work for us...right on!..... to channel it into creativity or to motivate us to change. <br />The thought of so many lonely people out there, especially around this time of year is so sad.awarenesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06098432781380754899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17192698.post-25348870831520855612009-12-11T08:20:29.770-04:002009-12-11T08:20:29.770-04:00The trick - if you can call it that - is in gettin...The trick - if you can call it that - is in getting loneliness to work for us not against us. I used to volunteer in a retirement home and it broke my heart at times. Elderly people who had been abandoned by their families, worn out by loneliness. I like to think I cheered many of them but it was a mammoth task. I want everyone in the world to have someone who thinks of them. The alternative is too sad.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17192698.post-9396193370079298262009-12-10T23:53:09.756-04:002009-12-10T23:53:09.756-04:00I prefer to face and embrace my emotions.
All of t...I prefer to face and embrace my emotions.<br />All of them.BlazngScarlethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09240507708999563717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17192698.post-56468752029582362452009-12-10T17:58:35.080-04:002009-12-10T17:58:35.080-04:00Hi Perplexio! Good to see you here. I always lov...Hi Perplexio! Good to see you here. I always love your comments. I agree with Coupland and you.... there is a part of loneliness we need in our lives because it can be motivating as well as inspirational on a creative level. Any of the arts is so much more uniquely expressed when we can dig deep into the place where lonely dwells. But, then we can easily and quickly turn a corner and find ourselves in a place of despair where the feelings do become numbed.... a way of protecting ourselves from the pain of loneliness. <br />It's a huge risk, and it saddens me when I see it in the eyes of another. <br /><br />vacant eyes that weep dry tears.<br /><br />see you on facebook! ;)awarenesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06098432781380754899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17192698.post-9774969544469414952009-12-10T17:15:28.618-04:002009-12-10T17:15:28.618-04:00Because he said it far better and more succinctly ...Because he said it far better and more succinctly than I ever could:<br /><br />...loneliness had of late become an emotion I had stopped feeling so intensely. I had learned loneliness's extremes and had mapped its boundaries; loneliness was no longer something new or frightening--just another aspect of life that, once identitified, seemed to disappear. But I realized a capacity for not feeling lonely carried a very real price, which was the threat of feeling nothing at all.- from <i>Life After God</i> by Douglas Coupland<br /><br />It's not quite the same, but I believe that the capacity for not feeling emotional pain carries with it the very real risk of losing the ability to feel anything at all.Perplexiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09971805688658949769noreply@blogger.com