Comments on: Why Sadness Sucks

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:17:21 +0000

@Jelena – Thank you for your kind words. Yes we Americans are pretty good at avoiding feelings. Somewhere in our history we confused fighting for freedom with closing of our hearts. Here is to the next generation of compassionate warriors.

@Linda – Thanks for your prayers. Even in the mucky muck of today, the flowers are growing.

By: Linda Smith

Linda Smith — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:51:18 +0000

I love that you gave emotions a color. For me sadness would be grey and it would live in my heart and in a hug. Joy would be shades of bright purple, lavender, pink – would also live in my heart, but in my eyes and feet as well. May you and your kids see many flowers of joy amongst the sadness. I will pray that will be so. Blessings, Linda

By: Jelena

Jelena — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:42:55 +0000

Hi Jason,

This is a very interesting article. When I moved to the U.S., I have noticed that feeling sad and in the bad mood is not commonly accepted in this culture. It felt like you are always expected to be smiling and dandy even when you don’t necessarily feel like it. When I have gone to funerals here, it looked like people still had to look good and not cry. While I don’t promote sadness as a great thing, I do agree with you that it is important that people are allowed to express any emotion and not be judged by it. There will always be suffering and I believe that accepting that fact is very liberating. I really commend you on being so open and honest and wish you all the best.

By: admin

admin — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:19:59 +0000

@Jessica – Thank you for reading. Willing to take a small leap and share how it’s been helpful?

By: Jessica

Jessica — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:01:10 +0000

Thank you for sharing this Jason. It’s very helpful to me!