what makes you sad?

Feeling unappreciated. Feeling isolated or alienated. Not getting enough sleep.

anger. anger also makes me sad.

Born too early, in all likelihood, to ever get beyond the second section of this map:
http://www.astro.princeton.edu/~mjuric/universe/

I feel sad a lot. I think it has to do with exposing myself to the news/media more than I used to. Also, I'm kind of a depressed person anyway.

So, i took my mom to get a kitten to replace her cat, who she had to "put to sleep" 5 months ago. (He, Willie, was 17, and ailing.)We found the bestest cutestest kittenest in the whole world at the MSPCA.
Two days later, after reading about the atrocities in Iraq re: the rape and murder of civilians by US Marines, and the revenge killings of US troops by Iraqui insurgents I found myself weeping uncontrollably about...
all of the kitties that were languishing at the MSPCA that I can't adopt. Literally. Weeping. And remembering each little face, especially the older cats that probably won't get adopted.
Obviously, this is displaced emotions. But I'm getting choked up even now.
Imagine my SO's reaction when he asked "What are you so upset about?"
"THE KITTIES!" Sob, sob, shuddering breaths.

you gave me so much and now it's of the earth
and it makes me cry

and you're standing here beside me
in a picture in a frame
and your voice could never fade it's so familiar
things you said in my head
every day

you gave me so much
and now it's of the earth
and it makes me cry

you're with me so much
though you're never with me anymore
and it makes me cry

The less obvious of Sad:
D-minor, definitely
Wandering from room to room, not knowing what to do.
All the children on the "adopt me" website via my local paper
"Lost" being on hiatus for the summer, which apparently makes me a much more sensitive person.

Me too.

Also, the pound - I can't take it. The thought of anything happening to my son. The lonliness that sets in at night after said child has gone to bed. Thinking about my dad and his Parkinson's and how he lives in NZ all alone because he's too stubborn. Missing my siblings. The realization that I probably won't have any more children.

Hell, I cry at Hallmark commercials, I'm the wrong person to ask.

#2016

whenever I let another poster get me all fed up and let loose on 'em like it was 2007

the random thread feature

work

My estrangement from my sister. We couldn't even be friends we're so different, but I wish we were at peace at least. Hate and rejection is so toxic and harmful.

On the day to day I am haunted by a lowgrade sadness that I have come to accept, and even embrace. The only response to an existence so comically absurd, so replete with heartbeak and loss, is sadness. Anything else is irrational, pathological.

This sadness is much different than depression, thankfully. It doesn't carry much psychic pain. It feels natural and healthy. I'm a theist and this sadness coupled with prayers and conversations with God get me through just fine.

buddha's first noble truth

random thread is best feature these nights

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