tamara, you are one side of the coin, the other is much more...something.
this something is, people do not want to be reminded of the(ir) frailty. seeing the sick constantly can certainly do that to a person. which isn't of itself a bad or good thing, but it must be acknowledged that not everyone wants to be (reminded).
On 3/29/06, Tamara Wyndham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I must say I was surprised to read that.
I have cared for sick people. While I am normally
squeamish to see certain illnesses in movies or to
read about the gory details in a book, in the presence
of a human being who is suffering I feel compassion. I
do the best I can.
The same when my friends have gone through break-ups
in their relationships, I am patient and caring. Never
occured to me that someone would react differently.
However, sometimes people in pain can be disagreeable.
If I didn't know the person very well, and I didn't
know what was going on with them -- that is, I didn't
kow that they were ill or that they were going through
a break-up, I would probably be annoyed.
- T
--- ma-network@yahoogroups.com wrote:
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 22:08:24 -0500
From: Elizabeth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: suicide
>guido bondioli wrote: People in "CIVILIZED" countries
are very ugly
toward sick people...<
Also when you get divorced or separated. It's as if
being in their vicinity
will infect them. Being near an ill person raises
acute awareness of our
personal human fragility and real temporariness on
earth. Being near
partners separating reminds us of the hardest weakest
part of our own
relationship. For me, the Fragility and the ambiguity
of life are frighteningly intolerable alternating with
exhilarating, as is walking on
the edge of a geyser, exhaling over the house of
cards, being in a hurry passing the wispy glass
sculpture.
Tamara Wyndham
http://www.tamarawyndham.com
"We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly."
-- E.M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born
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