Broadway Legend Joined: 8/22/05
Hi Ellie!
I hope you get the chance to help. I think I know how you feel - being around anyone who's experienced something terrible can be difficult, as in, what do you say? I'm not very good at this stuff myself, but the people who are seem to take a matter-of-fact attitude and just relate normally.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/7/04
Ellie, it really does.
Chloe, you seem to understand how people handle being around this, even if you aren't that way yourself. Any tips?
I'm not sure if I have any real tips, just observations. I've heard many complaints from people who are mourning a loss that others avoid them just when they need company the most, and I think it's often because of that worry over what the "right" thing to say is, or the kind of guilt you expressed about having a better life at the moment.
The ones who do well in this situation are able to put all that aside, realizing how much they are needed. They are good at listening and empathizing without getting so emotional themselves that they're no longer useful. Pretty special people, obviously.
PS: most of this comes from being good friends with two therapists.
Updated On: 9/4/05 at 10:58 PM
I kind of know how you feel, Nia. My family has volunteered to take in a family. I don't know if this will actually come to fruitition, but I admit I have mixed feelings about it. I feel like it would be so...awkward. It's petty and selfish, but I don't want to have to give up my room, I don't want to have to feel like I should entertain them or something. I don't know if I would know what to say to them. I feel like a horrible person for feeling this way. People have lost everything, and I'm worried about ym privacy being invaded. I'm sure if they do come, everything will turn out fine, though. I'm actually sort of hoping they do, now.
*claps for Emcee, Nia and Chloe re: thread on main board*
Well done, ladies!
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<-- back, just for today.
:::sigh:::
Our fingerprints don't fade from the lives we touch.
Puppies are babies in fur coats.
Tinfoil...The Terrorizing Terminator
I don't really feel that sad. More nostalgic. It's just kind of weird, in the sense of "my GOD, time goes by fast," since the closing also marks when I began college.
Bumping the safe haven.
Oooh, pretty picture. *pet*
Yours it quite pettable, as well.
Indeed. *grin* I have much love for it.
I still haven't finished reading the "bad Adam" thread or whatever it's called. My computer last night was too slow. Some people are stupid, from what I've read, though.
Quite. *hides out here*
*barricades door*
A feel-better picture:
It never fails to make me laugh, even if it is a bit blurry.
... I feel like I've missed more than I'm comfortable missing. XD Bad Adam thread? *search*
hehehe. I love that picture, Elphie.
Lari, it's on the main board. The one that says something about Adam Pascal's comment in the Times - ew ew ew. bah.
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/22/05
Emcee that avatar is hot. A bad Adam thread, hmmmm...what would be on there?
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/03
^agreed
i am so surprised with him. i can't believe that he would say something like that, no matter how true it is.
and i miss aida like crazy. *cries*
*cries for AIDA* I miss it SO much. I still can't get over seeing the All Shook Up poster in Time Square instead of AIDA.
Elfie-- that picture is great!!
I'm in such a quandry about that. I absolutely love the picute of Cheyenne on that poster, so... heh.
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/04
Cheyenne is quite the dish, it must be said.
Yes, Cheyenne is quite gorgeous, I have to admit...
Still on the AIDA note... I saw Lennon yesterday and I forgot how much I love Will Chase, who was the Radames I saw. Makes me miss it more.
Will Chase is QUITE lovely, I must admit.
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