Why People Don’t Always Need to Be Encouraged
When a friend is upset, it’s natural to try to cheer him up. However, that may not be what they need the most. As the School of Life explains, “cheering” on a friend is not the best way to empathize with him.
Rather than rejecting a friend’s sadness, the video invites you to share their melancholy so you can better understand where they came from and truly help them. They explain:
Sadness is not always a disorder that needs to be cured, and yet the dominant tone of many friendships is still cheerful, or more fragile cousin, cheerful : a good mood that abhors for nothing else.
It is a false assumption that the best way to please others should always be to impose a bright mood, when in fact, acknowledging despair is a key tool in the process of properly reimagining a friendship.
While the video does not discuss grief, we said earlier that there is no right or wrong way to help someone grieve , and this advice applies here as well. It can be difficult to figure out how to help a friend who is going through a difficult time, and we all do our best. However, the video is indeed a compelling argument for experiencing that sadness with them, rather than trying to hide it under the rug and cheer them up. Check it out above or from the link below.
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