Cheer?

My roommate Tasha often puts inspirational quotes as her facebook status. Today, she had, "I find comfort in the reality that we are sent to mourn with those that mourn. We are not sent to cheer them up." -Melissa Y

And that got me to thinking. When I'm down, a lot of the time the best thing to cheer me up is a distraction completely unrelated to whatever is bothering me. And sometimes that can be a good thing. But eventually, I need to face my problems- either to come to terms with it or to find a solution or just go to work, doing whatever I've known all along needs to be done but haven't wanted to. And that generally is not exactly cheering. But it is what has to be done.