I am reminded of a moment when one of my mentors threw his hands up and said, "Everyone has to be happy, everyone on Prozac". In context this was not, and from him never would be, a Cruiseian diatribe, but I think about it often because his point is made again anad again. Everyone is so easily offended (when really annoyance is allowed, but they demand that they are offended. There's a huge difference). No one wants to see, hear or speak of the evils in our lives, the bad times, soft or hard, the suffering of others. We should be ashamed... its being empathic that makes us human, empathy is a core of reason. We become less when we demand the bubble of happiness not be broken, finding offense to deflect the blow. So much happiness is truly there that we need not coat ourselves with it to keep the cold sorrows of life away. They are a part of life, and without them life is not real. Illuminate the darkness and fill it with understanding, reason and action to amend. As Gandhi said, whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is important that you do it. Live, happy and sad, live life as it is, not as you wish it would be.
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