On Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, I happened to talk to 3 different people. They are friends I love and care about. All three of them were unhappy over certain developments in their lives. In my opinion, at least in two cases, the developments were not bad or not as bad as my friends were feeling (again that’s my opinion, which hardly matter). I, being a good listener and a bad conversationalist, listened to them first and then in my attempt to be a good friend, suppressed my laconic instinct and tried to console them. I tried to convince them, with a plethora of comfortable words that everything in this world happens for a reason. All three of them, were of the opinion that my conclusion on the reasons of an event/incident is just to soothe them in their moment of emotional discomfort. Ironically, I have heard the same advice a number of times and I also have reacted as my friends did. One of the above friends asked me (taking his situation in context) “What’s go...
Transcript of my interaction with my happiness, sorrows, success, failure and everything else.