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Seems like my friends are all going thru rough patches lately.

All their blogs seemed to suggest "depressed", "fed-up".
Hmm.

It has somehow become a channel for a lot of people to pour their sorrows into the www.
Anonymous free aunt agony.
Perhaps all we need is a "listening ear",
somewhere to tell all our sad stories,
and then wait for our inner voice to heal and console ourselves
when you know that no one else can console you better.
Or rather, we just prefer to keep and cure our own sorrows
as we age.

It's a part of growing up I guess.
You stop telling your family/friends that much about how you really feel.
Because you are a grown up.
Expected to manage our own feelings.

And in the end, we turn to the www service to "listen".

Shouldn't we pick up the phone, meet up our friends and family to tell them instead?
that's how we built and strengthen our relationships/friendships in the past.

But can't deny that it's also a platform for us to tell the whole wide world on how we feel,
saving us the trouble of repeating it umpteen times.
And it's a 100% effective way to send the same undistorted message.

The wonders/pitfalls of technology.

But it's really sad to know that my friends are all feeling so sad.
I shall publish more "happy thoughts/events" blogs in future.
Hopefully it'll provide some soul food and soothing effect to their already battered souls :)

I learnt...

Today,

I learnt that
it is enough

when I lend a listening ear,

when I spent a bit of time,

when I pay that much of attention,

and when I show empathy

to someone who needs just so little
to feel her own presence,
and to know that someone cares.

It takes so little
to make that much of a difference.

Today,
I learnt something called
Appreciation.