Sometimes I wake up and feel ironically, just a little down.
Maybe my back is hurting or one of my children is crying.
Nothing major, just minor irritations.
Today though, as I was waiting on the platform to get on my usual train, I noticed a man standing beside me.
Average build, average height. I would have guessed him to be in his mid fifties.
I noticed him because of his face, or rather for his lack of it.
I can only guess that cancer was to blame and drastic surgery the only option.
He had lost at least half his jaw, his cheekbone and the section of skull that supports the eye socket and ear on the right side of his head. He’d also had a lot of skin ‘repaired’.
I felt several emotions: Sympathy, guilt, admiration and oddly gratitude.
Sympathy and admiration I understood. Here was a man struck down through no fault of his own with a terrible disfigurement, but still willing to face the world.
Guilt and gratitude though…
Why did I feel guilty? I’m completely blameless for his situation, and gratitude…
Grateful I suppose that I’ve been so lucky all my life.
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yeees, sometimes seeing people worse off that yourself does have an uplifting effect...
Guilt was prob because of that tho!
s perfectly normal.
I however occasionally wake up extremely pleased to be me for absolutely no reason, is hardly ever the opposite! But I have less minor grr stuff to annoy me 
Wow, I'm a happy person?!
 | kirky [Member] 2008-06-25 @ 12:26 |
Happiness is the reason for living.
 | kendersrule pro 2008-06-25 @ 12:30 |
Well yes, theoretically! Or future happiness, as is normally the case for me.
 | Simsarmy [Member] 2008-06-25 @ 12:21 |
Wow. It's those type of things that the world stuffs in your face to make sure you don't become too self-pitying.
I just want to know how happy he is, I find most people who have to deal with the most extreme of problems are the cheeriest of us all!
| kirky [Member] 2008-06-25 @ 12:27 |
I hope he is happy.
He's certainly brave.
| kendersrule pro 2008-06-25 @ 12:34 |
you wouldn't be comfy going out with injuries like his? Is a quandry...
 | hippogirl [Member] 2008-06-25 @ 15:33 |
I read an article that evolutionists believe that we can never truly be happy because once we as humans reach that state you stop trying.
However seeing people who obviously suffer a lot more than you do is a very thought provoking thing and I often thing to myself that I'm so lucky my problems are so trivial.
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