Bittersweet is a warm and compassionate portrayal of how the bittersweet enriches our lives. It is within the bittersweet where suffering and joy reside together, each bringing greater significance and meaning to the other. By the time you’ve allowed Susan Cain to share her perspective, you feel as if you have made a new, dear friend.
A casual life of joy and happiness would soon become boring and mundane without the troubles, sadness and loss for comparison. Our loved ones may not feel so precious. Those days when we awake feeling full of energy and enthusiasm can only remain awesome when we have days when it hurts to get out of bed for comparison.
We all share the ‘compassion instinct’ to varying degrees. We feel compassion when we see others experiencing suffering and pain. This reminds us of our own trials, and we realize the complexity life offers.
Many prominent and engaging individuals have aberrant stories in their past. This affords them the insight to express life in awesome and inspirational terms. Carl Jung called such people ‘wounded healers’ who used the experience of pain to share love for others.
In this book there are a number of examples where individuals accepted the sorrows of life right along with the joys, feeling the bittersweet, appreciating the complexities of life.
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