Hello everybody and welcome back to Sierra's Weekly Sayings! This week I will be discussing the matters of where my happiness lies within the suffering of others. Oddly enough it seems that I tend to deal with this idea a lot. As a young girl in Middle school, I wanted to be happy and I wanted everyone else to be happy too, but that was not always the case. I remember once for a school trip, we were all put into small groups to travel with. I remember being in a group with all girls and I was pretty happy with who I was with. There were three groups. The one I was part of and two more. There was this other girl who was not a part of our group. She was very kind to everyone and smiled a lot. This time she was not smiling, she looked sad. She said she wanted to be part of our group but there were too many people in our group for her to fit. Nobody in my group wanted to trade with her, they were all happy with who that were with. I felt bad for her, so I asked if I could trade groups with her, she happily accepted my offer. Now that I look back on it, in order for the girls in my group to be happy, she was suffering. This relates to "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas" because the girl was my suffering child in a way. She was sad and she suffered in order for us to be happy. Now that I am older I feel pretty silly about it honestly.

To end this post, a quote that I find very interesting, " Every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better. " -Dr. Steven Maraboli       Thanks for reading this weeks addition of Sierra's Weekly Sayings!