Emotional diversity is about deeply experiencing all of our emotions in order to be a reasonably happy well-rounded person. As you know I'm not good at expressing sadness. It's not that I don't feel the pressure of it, I just can't easily let it out. As you may remember I had to visit a counselor to help me deal appropriately with my grief when my husband, David, died.
Mr. Rogers was an expert on emotional diversity. I finally got around to watching the Tom Hank's movie earlier in the week. But I found it extremely slow moving and frustrating in that the main character (besides Mr. Rogers) was messed up and angry. To me it was tedious. I had to watch it over a three day period in order to get through it.
But, to my great surprise, when Mr. Rogers arrived at Lloyd's front door with a pumpkin pie - I fell apart! And I couldn't stop until Mr. Rogers said goodbye and whispered something in the Lloyd's dying father's ear.
Quite the cathartic release.
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