Singing songs in my head and laughing at my own jokes.
06 July, 2007
"As a parent..."
I purely hate it when someone starts a sentence "As a parent I feel awful that a child had died/injured/gone missing". It makes me feel like a non parent. That I can possibly understand because I haven't got children. Which is a nonsense.
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I agree! my other one is - "when you have children you'll realise REAL love"
Oh you are going to hate me on this one. I try not to say that expression but the fact remains that through experience, you tend to see things differently. For example, I've had birds and fish as pets but nothing like a dog. So when someone loses that animal I honestly cannot fully relate. I just don't have the full understanding of all that a dog brings to your world.
Applying what I just said to the children saying, I noticed now that certain news stories bother me more. Before I felt bad for the people but now there is a sinking feeling in my gut that was never there before.
Simply put, before I was involved in a hit and run accident with me on my bike, I never really understood bike safety nor did I feel bad for people where in accidents. After having gone thru it, I totally feel for anyone in an accident no matter how small.
BTW, I've never heard the expression Hannah refers too but I agree it doesn't make sense.
Mark - I don't hate you but the line about not feeling bad for people in accidents until you had an accident -just makes me think perhaps you're not the most empathtic person I know ;O)
The phrase I mention is often used in the context of "losing a child is worse than losing a partner - it's a different kind of love". Very strange. I can empathise with people about a variety of things without having experienced it. I read an article about a man whose wife was killed in a car accident and I actually felt physically sick putting myself in his position
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I agree!
my other one is -
"when you have children you'll realise REAL love"
Oh you are going to hate me on this one. I try not to say that expression but the fact remains that through experience, you tend to see things differently. For example, I've had birds and fish as pets but nothing like a dog. So when someone loses that animal I honestly cannot fully relate. I just don't have the full understanding of all that a dog brings to your world.
Applying what I just said to the children saying, I noticed now that certain news stories bother me more. Before I felt bad for the people but now there is a sinking feeling in my gut that was never there before.
Simply put, before I was involved in a hit and run accident with me on my bike, I never really understood bike safety nor did I feel bad for people where in accidents. After having gone thru it, I totally feel for anyone in an accident no matter how small.
BTW, I've never heard the expression Hannah refers too but I agree it doesn't make sense.
Mark - I don't hate you but the line about not feeling bad for people in accidents until you had an accident -just makes me think perhaps you're not the most empathtic person I know ;O)
The phrase I mention is often used in the context of "losing a child is worse than losing a partner - it's a different kind of love". Very strange. I can empathise with people about a variety of things without having experienced it. I read an article about a man whose wife was killed in a car accident and I actually felt physically sick putting myself in his position
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