Today is Memorial Day in the US. For some, today is a day off from work, a holiday and part of a long weekend. There are picnics, bar-b-ques, parades, salutes, speeches and memories.

Like most I have lost loved ones, family members and friends along the way. I consider myself among the lucky (perhaps only ignorant) that I have lost no one to war.

So why is this happening to me? I feel as if all the sorrow in the world is upon my shoulders. I hear the screams of horror. I feel the pain, the torture, the suffering, the hunger, the loneliness, the hopelessness, the loss and on and on and on.

Please make it go away. I cannot stand it any longer. Please make it go away. Please....

((((((((((Keb))))))))))))

Thanks Pickle

((((((((Pickle)))))))

i understand your feelings. xoxoxo pat

TY Pat
I wish I understood my feelings.
Maybe I'm just that horrible warning.

how can we not feel pain and suffering in today's world? there is so much going on around us that it's too much to take in.........xoxoxo pat

[Hopefull]

I sometimes contemplate the pain of others and just find that it is just so much. I tried to read the names of the people who died in 9/11. I couldn't do it. I am sorry that you feel so overwhelmed by the pain of the world. I wish the world was a more peacefull place. I suspect that you have a strong sense of empathy for others which can be nice at times and a pain in the neck at other times. I sometimes can't stand to see someone cry on the news. It just get to me.

Very true, Pat. I guess I can't always block it out.

Thanks for your kind words, Hopefull.

[Wants2Fly]

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fayerody said:
how can we not feel pain and suffering in today's world? there is so much going on around us that it's too much to take in.........xoxoxo pat

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Amen.