Memoir Monday 46/ What Makes You Sad?

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What makes you sad?

The topic of emotions is very worked from the intellectual point of view as part of the emotions that every human being can feel in his body, what makes him feel, how he expresses it, in case of being a low emotion how can he do to overcome it or improve in that type of emotions that for some circumstance he goes through.

Sadness is one of the emotions I feel that is very much taken into account because there is the manifestation of it in the way of speaking, acting of the people in your environment that you regularly frequent or live your day to day. It can be caused by external factors that still do not realize that what is outside we can not control, are situations that are out of our hands, somehow affects when there is no awareness of what we allow to make us feel certain situations.

When I refer to the external, situations that affect the collective and because we belong to a collective there is a belief that we should all feel sadness because the majority feels sadness.

I have learned that first we must allow ourselves to feel inside us, identify that emotion that we call sadness, look at it, accept it, face it, tell it why are you here, can I do something with you? This is a practice that becomes simple when we reach that point of understanding our internal process and what we can do in it, discover, control without allowing the emotion to affect our day, change the perspective towards that event that makes us sad.

There are situations that if I felt a lot of sadness in me, step by step I have been looking at them from the inside and I have applied to look at them with love, convert them, change the perception towards them so that the acceptance of that situation that one day moved me towards sadness occurs, today it allows me to learn other things, to have knowledge and feed the positive of it.

A situation that I lived more than 20 years ago with the death of my father, a lot of sadness in me for what happened that I could not stop crying wherever I was. With the passing of time I learned that the departure of human beings is something that must happen when God disposes it and how He disposes it. That emptiness that remains is filled with love, today I am filled with much love when I remember him and I value very much what he did for us.

The departure from Venezuela of my two sons, 19 and 24 years old at that time, was an abrupt departure as if looking to save them from future paths that have to do with prosperity, tranquility, although this separation brought tears and pain on both sides, those desires to be together in the days of celebration, today I look at it from another perspective ... certain things happened, experiences in their adaptation, the types of work they had to do, I feel calm to see them for me triumphant in how they have handled these situations and how they have risen to such circumstances. I consider them very brave. In addition to the departure of my children, nephews and nieces, this brings that the family reunions are with very few people because everyone is in their own thing to achieve goals.

It made me very sad the physical departure of my mother, with a lot of pain, but I have understood the designs of God and something beyond that has to do with the soul of every human being.

I am saddened by the darkness that exists in the world due to situations and actions of groups or policies of the countries that involve the members of a country, achieving the bias towards what the groups that have the strength to do what they want decide.

There are so many beauties around us that contemplating them makes us feel the wonders we are surrounded by, be it people or nature.

So far my participation.

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January, 2025
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