middle1
Hellur
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You know, I can empathize with pain and sadness. I've been through it, am going through it. I talk about it - to an extent.
I have a 40-something year old coworker who is absolutely obsessed with the dying/death. Not in a gothic-y type way. I don't think she has lost someone close to her. A few weeks ago she said "I try to imagine what it feels like to lose someone close to you, but I can't." I told her "Its very painful and you don't want to go through it". And left it at that, then she started crying. Is this weird to you? It is to me.
She makes it a point to bring the newspaper to work everyday, and tell us about all all the people who have been killed. She trolls the obituaries, attends funerals of people she barely knows. Every day she tells me about 2 or 3 people who have been diagnosed with cancer or who have died, most of the time people she doesn't even know. She likes to emphasize and dwell on how sad this is. I know that's part of the human condition right. But I'm at work, I don't won't to hear about it, honestly I don't care because I have no idea who she is talking about and I have my own problems!!!!! Very selfish of me but I just can't listen to this depressing stuff anymore. How should I approach her to stop telling me these things?
I have a 40-something year old coworker who is absolutely obsessed with the dying/death. Not in a gothic-y type way. I don't think she has lost someone close to her. A few weeks ago she said "I try to imagine what it feels like to lose someone close to you, but I can't." I told her "Its very painful and you don't want to go through it". And left it at that, then she started crying. Is this weird to you? It is to me.
She makes it a point to bring the newspaper to work everyday, and tell us about all all the people who have been killed. She trolls the obituaries, attends funerals of people she barely knows. Every day she tells me about 2 or 3 people who have been diagnosed with cancer or who have died, most of the time people she doesn't even know. She likes to emphasize and dwell on how sad this is. I know that's part of the human condition right. But I'm at work, I don't won't to hear about it, honestly I don't care because I have no idea who she is talking about and I have my own problems!!!!! Very selfish of me but I just can't listen to this depressing stuff anymore. How should I approach her to stop telling me these things?