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Platitudes and more platitudes.

elsien · 2013-01-16 19:58:52

A close relative died on Tuesday. Now I'm not a touchy feely person - if I had autism I'd probably be described as tactile defensive, and I don't really "do" sympathy. Work is fine - I've told colleagues not to be nice to me and they've taken me at my word. Which is brilliant as far as coping goes. However friends,…

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fluffnutter Posts: 23,179 Forumite

17 January 2013 at 8:40PM

I think you've hit on something very true there, elsien. The problem with platitudes and social convention and doing the 'right' thing is that it sometimes doesn't leave room for honesty. Funerals become some homogenised one-size-fits-all same-old same-old and you lose the sense of the person.

"Growth for growth's sake is the ideology of the cancer cell" - Edward Abbey.
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