Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Tek) 9/26/83; site orca.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!harpo!ihnp4!zehntel!tektronix!orca!ariels From: ariels@orca.UUCP (Ariel Shattan) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: getting over it... - (nf) Message-ID: <525@orca.UUCP> Date: Wed, 1-Feb-84 11:54:07 EST Article-I.D.: orca.525 Posted: Wed Feb 1 11:54:07 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Feb-84 02:18:34 EST References: <1379@pur-ee.UUCP>, <1651@utcsstat.UUCP>, <915@proper.UUCP> <3482@utzoo.UUCP> Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR. Lines: 28 Laura, This is how you define emotional pain: >What is emotional pain? Every single case I can come across is the pain >of dissapointment -- the world didn't give me what I expected of it. I heartily disagree. Much of pain IS self-pity, true. But what about the pain you feel when you watch someone you love suffer? What about the pain you feel when x number of hundred innocent people are massacred in a totally senseless terrorist act? What about the pain you feel when you hear of the brutal way a man treats his family? What about the pain you feel when you have to hurt someone else? Or the pain you feel when a teenager commits suicide because s/he felt that it was the only choice? This hurting is quite real, and just because you personally may have never felt it does not mean that it does not exist. There aren't many people in the world who are sensitive enough to feel pain from the hurts of others, but I can't help but thinking that the world would be a better place if more people were this sensitive. But for the time being, it would help those who really are that sensitive if those with thicker skins would allow that such sensitivity may be a valid personality trait. Ariel Shattan ..!tektronix!orca!ariels