What Sadness Teaches Us About Who We Are
4 min readAug 25, 2020
My therapist says that sadness is the emotion that tells us the most about who we are as individuals. “Sadness,” she explains, “lets us know what we’ve lost. That’s how we know what matters to us.”
When I was 22, I lost my best friend. We’d graduated college together less than a year before. After graduation, we both went home to our parents and somehow boomeranged back to our college town. In…
