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Not always a good thing, a baseball addiction .  Hearing the title of this post, " Why We Love Baseball , " FD told me that it has been done before. So I changed the title. What is it with baseball? Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, you might have noticed, are flush with exuberant Go Cubs Go adulations. FANDOM .  Cubs hoodie-to own it Kris Bryant- Go Cubs But really, it makes no sense, and I don't understand it myself. Why all the excitement? It is just baseball. Just a sport. Why should anybody really care? . My friends asked me to dinner last night. Could I get free?  "No I'm really sorry, uh…" They compassionately text back before I finish:  Oh, right you've been working all day, and your back will hurt if you sit a minute longer. Right?   It's okay, another time . We get it . But I can't let it go with a lie, even if it might be true, sometimes. "Don't be ridiculous! To go out with you, for the opportunity to catch up, I would take dr...

Therapists often talk about quitting, going into some other field. Some normal field, where they aren't flooded with the emotions of others for five to eight hours a day; what I call  empathy overload . Most people, even those who aren't therapists, become overwhelmed when friends and family have tsorris (Yiddish, rhymes with floor-dis , means  troubles ), all that feels unfair. When the Holocaust is mentioned in a therapy session, it is empathy overload for the victims, even for the survivors, that brings the patient (and sometimes the therapist) to tears. Someone has to change the subject. The rub is that even if we did change jobs we would find ourselves still feeling the pain, that of the people, the very world around us. Just like you do. So at the gate, waiting for the plane, I’m looking around, not at the books so much, usually there isn’t time for that (barring a flight delay), but am scanning my fellow travelers, the most interesting species in the zoo, my attention m...