Reply #46: Well, grieving for a lost person... [View All]

[Terran]

that to me is mostly about sadness for oneself--that we won't have that person around to brighten our lives. Grieving for an animal is different to me (I recently realized this difference, having lost two cats in less than a year). Because animals are complete and pure innocents, unlike even the best of humans, it saddens me not only to lose their company but to think about how they may pereceive their own lives' ends. They don't understand death, and in many cases their lives must end in fear and pain. And they never deserve such suffering.

Aside from that, I get pretty serious a lot of the time thinking about how the world appears to be undergoing changes that will probably result in indescribable human suffering during my lifetime. But at the same time, I'm very oriented toward humor and laughter, so the two are battling it out in me lately. I think some people are mentally more oriented toward one pole or another. People who are "serious" are naturally so, and they also have much to be serious about these days.