Feeling
by Linda Doerksen

It's really hard to think people like to hurt other people. True I try to understand why they do hurt people. I know people don't do it on purpose, and maybe people who are doing the hurting don't stop and think what they are hurting until it's too late. I guess that's life. Some people are sincerely mean. You have to take the good with the hard feeling too. You hope it will pass and you can forget it, or maybe try to talk about whatever hurt you in the first place. I really hope people can work things out.  

Background Information

Everyone has been hurt by someone else. Talk about a time when you were hurt by someone. What happened? How did you feel? Have you ever hurt someone?

Questions

1. What does Linda try to understand?

2. What don't people do on purpose?

3. What does the word purpose mean?

4. Use the word sincere in a sentence.

5. Do you think that some people are just mean?

6. Why do you think people have to take the "good with the hard feeling too"?

7. What's another word for pass as it's used in this story?

8. What does Linda say people can do when someone hurts them?

9. What does Linda hope?