2007-01-14 18:19:37 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Yes, you can if you are an empathetic person. A person who has empathy towards another human being who is experiencing sorrows is aware of how fortunate they are not to have to endure or experience sorrow such as that person or people are.
Both of these are thoughts, emotions and feelings, we create them for ourself, they are not given to us by others. There have been many people who have worked to help others in need purely because they wanted too, not because they had experienced similar.
Those of us who do seem to experience many sorrows in a lifetime will hold onto homilies such as 'from sorrow I know true joy'. This can also be looked at by some in this way,' from true joy I know deep sorrow'.
How we each experience our life is a mystery known only unto ourselves.
Lovely question of a Philosphical nature.
2007-01-14 18:47:29 · answer #1 · answered by sag_kat2chat 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not fully. If a baseball player hit a home run every time he came to bat, how could he really appreciate it if he never made an out? Home runs would become mundane, expected, and in his own mind, no big deal. How can a person fully appreciate the positive having never experiencing the negative? If a person looses the use of a leg from a car accident, do they value more, become more appreciative of what they had when they had the use of both legs? Sure they do. A fruit tree is pruned, cut back, so it will grow stronger and produce more fruit .No one likes to suffer or have pain but we can learn from it and come to appreciate, and care more about what we have because of it,
2007-01-15 02:50:37 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I seriously don't believe so.
But I've been answering your questions for hours and I'm brain dead and just have to bow out on this one....... lol
OHHHHHHHHH I have so much to say though!!!
So I suppose my sorrow comes from having to bow out, but the joy was in getting to experience the day with you even though you weren't here. Have a great day, G. :)
2007-01-15 16:57:31 · answer #3 · answered by Marianne not Ginger™ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've experienced the sorrow so long that I don't remember the joy.
2007-01-15 02:30:50 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Just like you wouldn't appreciate the light as much if it were never dark. Sometimes you have to know what it's like to have nothing to appreciate the things you do get; to have your heart broken before you ever know true love. The people who have everything;how much do they really appreciate? If you want to smell the roses, you have to first get past the thorns. But once you do, you find that the thorns only serve to make the roses smell even sweeter.
2007-01-15 02:33:12 · answer #5 · answered by Miss Understood 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How can you know what joy is if you haven't experienced what sorrow is?
2007-01-15 02:34:32 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You could appreciate somewhat, but the fullness comes with the extent of knowledge of the opposite.
2007-01-15 02:25:52 · answer #7 · answered by Susan M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. A person doesn't have to feel pain in order to know the difference between suffering and happiness. I think when people say suffering exists so people can know good, it's just a poor excuse.
Oh, the pain of a thumbs down. Now I know true happiness! lol.
2007-01-15 02:23:17 · answer #8 · answered by i luv teh fishes 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I don't think it would be possible. You can't really appreciate anything until you lose something.
2007-01-15 02:25:45 · answer #9 · answered by MeanKitty 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
no because if you are happy all the time what will you have to compare it to ?
2007-01-15 02:24:50 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋