sneeky nostalgic peek at Kate and Wills wedding

Defending a poster who was the victim of a nasty verbal attack is not a witchhunt Poly

Poly580 I'm agreement about this post!!

Too much drama for me.
oldbatty enjoy what gives you little light relief.

Life is just too short to care what others think.

batty, you just shouldn’t have made reference to uTube links, I found Casablanca , Bogard saying ‘we will always have Paris’. sob

Paddyann in that case why watch ANYTHING on TV? Watching dramas with contrived stories, played by actors we do not know personally. Watching documentaries about subjects and countries that do not relate to us.

Am I sad? I had never heard of Kate Spade until last night. But when I heard the story and saw the picture, I felt so sad that someone with so much going for her should feel life was not worth living, not even for her 13 year old daughter's sake, I feel so sorry for her daughter and her family. My heart goes out to them.

Presumably that means like oldbatty I am one of those people who "has no life" and "latches on to people who don't know she exists". In which case I am proud that I have no life and latch onto people who don't know I exist.

It is called living in a wider world and having understanding interest and compassion for all those other people in the world beyond ones own self-selected closed circle.

oh yes , horribly sad and pretty much incomprehensible.

oldbatty Her sister has spoken today and said that they tried to get her to get help but she thought getting intreatment help would affect her image. It seems that she might have been bi-polar but it has been a long standing problem. It is very sad but she did have people trying to help.

complex and sad problem and possibly not one for discussion here.
We are all trying to do our best and keep afloat.
I like things like this chat and watching stuff and reading trashy novels. Its a distraction.
Sometimes the level of nastiness on here and MN is beyond the pale.

I wasn't introducing this sad event to this thread as a discussion subject. There is already a thread on this subject.

I was giving it as an example of how we can have an emotional reaction to the sadness of people who don't know we exist. If we can feel for them in their grief, why not similarly in their happiness (Royal weddings, whether Caite and William or Meghan and Harry).

oh ok

Oops mispelt Kate, confused with my Caite!

It’s compassion, isn’t it MOnica? Fir example, when we see pictures on the news of terrible events and we see those people caught up in it and hear them speak. We don’t know them personally, but we can still feel for them. Likewise, happy events. We don’t have to know the people in order to feel happy for them, which in turn, makes us feel happy and uplifted, rather like oldbatty was saying.

Yes, Mapleleaf, you have put your finger on it. It is the feelings we have with and for those close to us rippling out to the wider world and it is what makes us human.