I’ve been thinking about something that has never made sense to me.

I never could understand why people shun you if you’re going though a hardship such as an illness, death of a loved one or a family estrangement issue. I’ve been told it’s because people are afraid of those things happening to them so they avoid you. That never made sense to me.

Today I wondered if it’s just like when people avoid you if things are going really well in your life also? Sometimes people will avoid you if you get a job promotion or some other good thing.

Sometimes it makes people feel bad to be around others who are doing exceptionally well if they happen to be struggling at the time. So it’s the same kind of thing if they avoid you when you are struggling because they just don’t want your struggles to occur in their lives in any way?

So whether we have great things going on in life or terrible things going on in life we can find ourselves feeling isolated or shunned?