Does Everyone Feel Sorrow?

Does everyone feel sorrow? That is the initial question to a much larger problem, for it does seem as if some people do not. In any given city you'd be able to tell the different from an 'emo', and a 'regular'. An emo not necessarily being a dark clad hater, they are just people who feel an emotion to the extreme; someone unable to cope with this emotion in such a way as for it to be invisible to others. Say that this feeling is sorrow. Are these people feeling more sorrow than other people do, or are they worse at coping with the feeling? That is the greater problem.

On one hand, the people who lets there darkest emotion show have issues coping with them, and lets them show on the ground that they cannot conceal them. However, whether or not this coping arises from the mental strength of character, from experience, or simply from honesty, is the issue that is presented to me in my mind, and what I need to clarify on, in order to deal with it myself.

Maybe being emotional about a problem, in a way that others might recognize, make the given problem easier to cope with, because you in turn do not also have to cope with the problem that you are not understood. If you carry with you an aura of dread and despair, will people not recognize these emotions in you? You might not acknowledge so yourself, but part of the problem in concealing sorrow arises from the fact that everyone else carries on the way they did before. Life goes on without you, if no one stops to take a second glance at the emotional individual, and as such, giving room for your dark emotions might make others give you the time and space you need to overcome these burdens you carry.

Then there is the question of strength versus experience. Does having your heart broken feel lighter to those who've tried it several times over, or to those that have never lived an easy life? These two things are connected in a subtle way, for how does strength arise, if not from the confrontation with emotions that are difficult to bear. If this was the case, then surely confronting hardship by yourself would make you stronger and more capable of doing so in the future, however when must one recognize that his problems are greater than himself, and bend his pride in order to let others help? Surely if you just keep your tongue straight you could turn out self reliant and stronger than if you would need the support of others.

Friends are never guaranteed; they are circumstantial. If you rely on your friends to support your problems and they disappear, you will be left with the whole burden yourself. While they helped you carry it, the problem might however have grown, and you might not be able to carry it by yourself anymore. Things such as these could lead to seclusion, depression or even suicide. In order to evade this avalanche, one must master themselves to the extent that their emotions are no longer