In sorrow as well as in joy, but even more so in sorrow, we feel that we need to turn to other people. This says much about human life. It is worth asking ourselves: to whom can we turn? And what happens if we turn to them?
What happens when we turn to another in sorrow is perhaps the single best gauge of a friendship. It is then that we are most grateful if the friendship has been an ongoing work-in-progress, the object of intentional building—during the ‘normal’ times of life. Of course as we grow older we can find that ‘misfortune’ is not so abnormal.
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