Let the Feeling Pass: On Visitors and Shared Sorrows

Date: April 11, 2025

Thought of the Day: “Feelings are just visitors, let them come and go.” – Mooji

Question of the Day: Is tragedy a collective unifier?

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Some days, you don’t have to do anything with your feelings. You just have to host them like houseguests—some polite, some rowdy, some who overstay their welcome. The Thought of the Day reminds us that feelings, no matter how big or overwhelming, are not permanent residents. They are just passing through. And maybe they don’t need fixing—just noticing.

At the same time, when a feeling gets big enough, it doesn’t just knock on your door—it knocks on everyone’s door. And suddenly we’re all standing on our front lawns, blinking at each other, realizing we’re in it together. That’s where today’s Question of the Day leads us.

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Letting Feelings Pass Through

The idea that feelings are visitors changes everything. If you’ve ever tried to build a life around anger or build walls around sadness, you know how heavy it gets. But if you treat each emotion like a guest, you stop identifying with it. You stop dragging it from room to room. You just let it sit for a bit. Maybe offer it tea. Then let it leave.

We get in trouble when we forget they’re visitors. We start acting like every sad thought needs solving or every angry feeling needs unleashing. But more often than not, the answer isn’t action—it’s patience.

You are the house. The feelings are not.

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When Tragedy Brings Us Together

Today’s Question of the Day asks: Is tragedy a collective unifier? And the short answer is… sometimes. But not always in the way we expect.

Think of 9/11, the early days of the pandemic, natural disasters. In the initial moments, tragedy has this eerie power to erase borders, drop egos, and make strangers into neighbors. We check in on each other. We donate. We pray. We show up.

But the unity often fades as quickly as it arrives. When the shock wears off, we tend to retreat into our corners. The shared sorrow fractures into blame, politics, and individual grief.

Still—those first moments of unity? They’re real. And they matter. They remind us that at the core, we are not so different. That when everything falls apart, we instinctively reach toward one another.

Why This Matters

Pairing today’s Thought of the Day and Question of the Day shows us something vital: our internal world and our shared world are reflections of the same truth. Emotions—like tragedies—aren’t permanent. But the way we respond to them can define who we are.

Maybe the goal isn’t to avoid pain, but to learn how to move through it together.

And maybe—just maybe—the best kind of visitor is the one that reminds you that you’re not alone in the house.

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