When things around aren’t going well there is a desire to be around those who have been through the same pains if not worse. For some reason you feel better when you know someone also has been hurt like you. I guess there is a feeling that someone truly understands what you’ve been through but do we truly want another individual to be hurt like us? Wouldn’t it be more compassionate to be the one willing to bear the pain and hurt instead? It’s an interesting dilemma but we can take some solace in knowing that when great news comes we want to be around others that have shared that happiness as well. Let us then pray that in the times to come misery won’t need company because happiness will surround the world instead?