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You just need more movies that are more realistic about the fact that life kind of sucks sometimes and it's okay so again growing up in Greece said Manolis Kellis, I Have been exposed to songs that are not just sad, but they're miserable one of them comes to mind and and it's basically talking about this woman who's Lamenting in the early morning about losing the joyful kid the joyful young man Who basically died in the civil war in the arms of? our own fellow citizens, and She's like if only he had died. Fighting the foreign forces if only he had died at the you know sides of the you know general If only he had died with honor. I would be proud to have lost the joyful kid. I mean, it's devastating right. It's like he didn't just die. She died without honor,my friend who was with me was listening to the song, and she's like, "This is depressing. Oh, i said you have to listen to another one. It's not as sad. She's like what this one die with honor?" So that's one example, another example is I picked up these books that I have from my childhood and I started reading stories to my kids and the first story is about These two children one is really poor living on the street and the other one is really rich really living in the house in the bright light above and the poor one is wishing looking that window and wishing that he could have that house and the other one is At the window wishing that he was free that he wasn't sick all the time that you could escape outside It's only four pages long at the end. Both children die. One of them dies from cold. The other one dies from illness.


And you're like, how is that even a children's story? The next story, I'm like, okay, that's fine, let's skip this one, you know, so I read this to my kids, and then I read the next one, and the next one is about this woman whose brother is at war against the Turks, and he is going to die. And she prays to the Virgin, please don't let him die, and the Virgin appears and she's like, no problem. Tell me who to kill instead. And she's like, anyone, anyone, no, no, no, no, choose one, how about this Turk? This one has two kids, a beautiful family waiting for him at home. She's like, no, not this one, choose another one, and then she goes through all the life stories of the others, and she's like, no, no, just don't take anyone. She's like, I can't do that, you can choose to bring your brother back, and he will be depressed for the rest of his life because he didn't fight at war, because he didn't go to that battle, and he will live without honor, she's like, and in the end, the woman decides to have her brother killed instead, because she dies with her, I mean, this...


So why am I giving you these examples? It's not a glorification of misery. It's expanding your emotional range. It's teaching you that, and when I read these stories, I'm not a jerk. I'm crying out loud. I have tears, and my face becomes red from the pain that I'm experiencing through these stories. It's just so deeply touching to embrace the suffering not because of an accident, but because of a choice. The sacrifice to embrace the fact that not everything is cute and rosy and always ending well. And I think that we don't do a good enough job of teaching our kids that just life sucks and life is unfair sometimes and that's and that's okay and sometimes I read a story to my kids I read a story every night and sometimes the story is horrible and sometimes the story is good and sort of friendly and happy and my kids always ask what's the moral of the story and sometimes there's a moral and it's like oh you should be good or you should be nice you should be helping each other etc and sometimes just no more and I tell my kids you know what sometimes life doesn't make sense and it's okay and you can't comprehend everything and I think this concept of how do you deal with the bad days comes from the fact that we're taught we're brainwashed into thinking that every day should be a happy day and we're not ready to cope with misery and the other thing that crying through these stories teaches you is that you don't have it nearly half as bad as you think. Do you see what I mean? Basically it tells you that I mean my mom would always tell me about how she was transformed as a teenager when she volunteered in the hospital and she saw all these people at the brink of death clinging for life and helping them out to best she could and crying her heart out when they were dying and sort of how that taught her the appreciation for what we have every day, waking up every morning and saying my life doesn't suck my life is not nearly half as bad as it could be and and sort of embracing the joy that we have of living where we live in the moment we live and