what makes you sad?

[shakes head, gets sad and cries]

A certain person in the white house and the climate

A lot of different things, anything that’s negative

A lot of suffering in the world and this country. Inability of us to effectively ameliorate the poverty and seeing the effect on the children

A lot of things

A lot of things, just pain and suffering mainly, cruel things people do to each other and animals, the struggles of being human

A lot of things, sometimes obviously life. Not being in the place I thought I'd be at this point in my life

A lot of things, what probably makes me most sad is losing good friends and it's not always my fault

A lot of things. Feeling like I won't be able to reach my potential (or that my family and friends won't be able to). Also injustice

A negative opinion, when I disappoint myself and I can' t do what I want to do. It also motivates me to do better

All kinds of things, death of young people, missed opportunities

All the discourse right now in the country

All the young kids coming into prison

Animals being killed in movies

Any dislocation in our work culture

Anyone dying

Anything bad that happens to children

Apathy

At this time of life, things that keep me away from God

Bad situations

Being alone

Being alone, sometimes and sometimes not

Being away from my children

Being away from my family

Being away from my kids

Being away from my son and family

Being let down

Boredom and financial instability

Climate Change

Coldness

Confusion

Criticism, people offer so much here because everyone is checking on one another

Cruelty to other humans

Cruelty, ignorance and that more people don't have the tools to work out their own suffering (and instead try to change other rather then themselves)

Current state of the world

Currently anything Trump does

Death

Death and when people think of you in a different way and you can't change their perspective of you

Death, that's probably it

Disney movies

Disappointing others

Disappointing people I love

Distance from my best friends

Don't know [shrug]

Donald Duck

Existence

Failing to achieve expectations

Fashion, everyone wears the same clothes by the same brand

Fear in general

Fear of failure and losing people

Feeling alone

Feeling defined by the mistakes I've made

Feeling lonely or hearing about something happening to someone that doesn't seem fair

Finality and judgement. I think there's an overlap there

Friends and family passing away

Getting bullied

Getting hurt

Getting older, I'm not really sad, pretty happy guy

Going to bed without saying goodnight to one of my parents

Good things coming to an end

Hate or intolerance in general

Heartbreak

Hearing of death of people who are much younger

How cruel humans can be to one another

How many liberals there are, the politics in this country. The fact that there are people that are party to socialism as a way life in this country

How mean people are to each other

Hurt between friends

Hurtful speech

I don't always feel sad. True sadness would be the loss of a loved one

I don't have a sense of sadness other than seeing my loved ones unhappy

I don't know

I don't know, I'm pretty upbeat. I get asked that a lot, just because I'm old I guess people think you're supposed to be depressed. I would say losing money in the stock market

I don't think sadness is a bad thing, there's beauty in sadness. Like experiencing sadness when there's a connection that doesn't last. But that sadness proves that it was something

I don’t really know

I get sad when I get overwhelmed with worry. I guess with social issues and I as an individual can only solve a minute part

I think death and the prospect of death

I think waste. The consumption in the US and how much is wasted

I'm not a very sad person, missing people who are no longer here

I'm not really a sad person

I'm not sad

I’m not sure

I'm worried about my Son

If Bubba [my brother] cuts my ponies in half

If I'm thinking about my family crisis

If immediate family members pass away

If my grandpa doesn't talk to me. I always want to see a smile with him

If my sons are unhappy

If people were to treat me poorly

If somebody in the family is not well

If there's bickering between friends and family. I want everyone to be on a positive plane

Incurable illness and death

Indian politics

Inequities

Injustice

Injustice and change and good people having to go through stuff they don't deserve

Injustice and circumstances that some people find themselves in that can be seen as unlucky or bad breaks. And conversely the sense of entitlement some people have at their good fortune. Not having a sense of gratitude or humility

Injustice, racism, inequality, death

Irrational violence (physical or emotional). Not having basic financial resources to live in London

Ismail's [grandson’s] studies

It's very hard to make me sad

Just about everything

Knowing that the time that I have with the people I love is limited

Knowing that there are innocent people in prison

Learning without liking it

Leaving my family

Leaving my parents

Leaving people behind. Moving, the end of a friendship or relationship, losing that connection that you once had

Letting myself down

Little things that get between people connecting

Living an unfulfilling life, fear of missing out. Living as if you're missing out

Loads of stuff, seeing people I love in pain

Loneliness

Loneliness

Loneliness, the silence of loneliness

Long times of isolation

Losing my animals

Losing people

Losing people I love

Loss

Loss of communication between people that love each other

Loss of family

Loss, I'm still missing my Dad and its been 19 years

Lost love

Lost potential

Lots of moments in my past, bad decisions

Lots of things- the state of the world. This current Presidency [Trump] has been making me very sad

Lots of things, my own internal negative thoughts about myself, and the world around me. Abuse and cruelty, prejudice, conflict. Violence and when people do that to plants and animals

Many things, when I get low marks in subjects and exam papers. Sometimes we decide something and we don't get it

Meanness

Misbehavior of the respect of life and the natural environment

Misogyny

Missing my family

Missing my grandma's birthday

Modern medicine

Mommy and Daddy taking my toys

More than anything misunderstanding in communication between you and anyone else. It can hurt, it can be fun but in most cases it will create drama or inconvenience

My grandson not speaking makes me sad

My Mother [being] sad

My Mother's death

My Parents getting divorced

My younger brother, otherwise nothing

No idea

Normal things that make people sad, family member dying, people in pain, maybe doing bad on a test

Not a lot

Not being able to be productive

Not being able to be with my kids every day

Not being able to help [my daughter] get her goals, if she's sad I'm sad

Not being able to help my family

Not being able to keep my family happy

Not being able to spend time with my kids

Not being with my kids

Not doing what I want

Not feeling well

Not getting my way

Not getting the toy that I want

Not having control of things, when its outside of my ability

Not seeing my son

Not spending enough time with my family

Not too much but missing the chance to be there for someone when they needed support

Nothing

Other people in pain, especially people I care about, but really anyone

Other people's sadness

Other people’s suffering, that has always made me sad

Others not understanding me

Others sadness

Pain

Pain or loss related to animals

People

People are becoming too tribal focusing on differences not similarities and pulling into our own shells

People being mean

People hurting others

People leaving me and seeing old people and one [of older people] dying and I'm feeling sad for the other 1/2

People suffering

People suffering, worldwide-not just my family

People who disappoint me

People's arrogance and violence

Politicians

Politics

Poverty and injustice in the world. Leaving everyone when I go to college

Poverty levels in the world

Pressure and stress

Probably when I disappoint people, not meeting expectations

Realizing how much I won't be able to do in my life

Recently I was at a funeral for an unclaimed veteran that made me sad, Seeing people on the side of the road in tents, homeless people

Regret

Sad movies or sometimes for no reason. Can't always be happy unfortunately.

Sad things

Sadness and frustration when someone speaks with an authority and certainty that is not supported by evidence or knowledge and they are unwilling to consider any other possibility. Their minds are made up.

Seeing a family member or pet die

Seeing children in pain

Seeing how the world is

Seeing kids stressed or unhappy

Seeing my grandson leave

Seeing my kids and [my partner] sad

Seeing my kids or wife unhappy

Seeing my kids struggle on things. Or politically "fake news" or people who find news to support whatever they believe

Seeing other people sad and when I'm unable to help people

Seeing other people unhappy

Seeing pain or hurt, other people in pain

Seeing people around me sad

Seeing people die or be sad

Seeing people get hurt (even on TV or movies). People or animals being mistreated

Seeing people I love turn towards fear and blaming others

Seeing people or anything die

Seeing people suffer

Seeing relatives, get older

Sense of loss with a unity of community. The atomization of society

Senseless harm to animals and children. Loss of environment and loss of history

So many things. Definitely unkindness, when people don't recognize their own worth or beauty or magnificence

Soccer

Social injustice and ignorance (relational ignorance) human suffering

Somebody hurting my kids or my family

Sometimes when people aren't giving chances to Physically challenged people

Specifically if there’s conflict with people you love. When my kids are sad, when Jen [partner] is sad. When other people are affected other than the obvious stuff.

State of the world for my daughter

Stress and seeing people hurt and in pain

Suffering

Talking about my [biological] Mom

That I should have appreciated my time with my daughters more

That I'm in here [prison] for the first time. I shouldn't be in here

That I'm not home with my family. That I've made some bad decisions that have kept me from them

That my sister won't play with me

The big things, the death of a loved one makes me very sad. But also in a wider sense a lot of selfish actions. People not taking care enough care of others and not being truthful

The current political trend

The direction the world is going

The fact that I have to do everything on my own- get a job, get a house. I'm expected to do stuff on my own all of a sudden

The first thing that comes to mind is stories of children being abused

The homeless situation really rankles me and what bothers me is that I have no answers. And since I have two Grandkids, the whole climate change situation. It makes me sad that the whole world is laughing at us politically. And if anything happens to my kids or Grandkids that affects me deeply

The intolerance in the world today

The thought of having to be away from my family

The thought of my mother dying

The thought of not having people I care about around me. Both kids getting older and people dying

The unhappiness of my close loved ones

The unwillingness of people to accept others as they are. Because they are unable to coexist

The way the world is with no mercy or compassion

The world doesn't have to be the way it is in a human sense. People don't have to treat each other so badly. Unnecessary suffering

There are many thing, when my kids have problems

There's nothing

There’s a lot of things but the harm that's being done to the environment, the homeless because they deserve a better life. They shouldn't be living in the street

Things that aren't morally correct. Things that are just wrong. Whether it's lying, cheating or manipulation

Things that happen to people in the world

Thinking about everything that's gone by that I can't change

Think how I have no family, everyone has passed away

Thinking about failures in my life

Thinking about my children

Thinking about my family dying

Thinking about my late sister

Thinking about my parents' mortality

Thinking about my son unfortunately

Thinking about when our original dog died at 12, we loved her a lot

Time goes by so fast when you're enjoying yourself but when you're not it just extends

Time passing too quickly. You just wish you had more time in the moment of things

To be frank, anyone close to me being sad makes me sad

To see people not respecting the environment, to see people not recycle properly, and to lose friends

Today. It’s the day my husband passed

Tragedies in life and the world. People who don't relish life and let it pass them by

Unfairness

Unfairness, injustice

Unkindness

Unrealized potential

Varieties of things, I can’t pin them down

Violence

Wasted opportunity

Wasted potential and unrealized opportunities

Watching my boys leave tomorrow. And I never outgrow that

Watching other people cry or be sad

What I haven't been able to do yet. That I haven't done enough

What's going on in this country at this time, the divisiveness

Whatever is a trying time, even if it doesn't concern me, like someone close to me going through a grieving process

When a dog dies in a story, or a cat

When a friend passes

When anyone becomes sick

When bad things happen to my loved ones

When bad things happen to people. Like illnesses, mistreatments

When children are not settled down

When children aren't well

When friends die

When I can't help someone ( I don't have the ability)

When I can't help the people around me from being sad

When I disappoint myself or if I hurt others feelings unintentionally

When I disappoint myself or others, when others are suffering

When I don't see my family for a while. Makes you feel alone

When I hurt someone and injustice

When I know people are struggling medically, physically

When I let myself down, sometimes I'm really hard on myself and when I fail it really makes me frustrated

When I lose my control

When I make this face [sad face]

When I mess up with a friend or family member

When I see homeless people

When I see lack of empathy from people

When I see my Mom cry

When I see other other human beings treating human beings badly

When I see people that I love that are hurting and that I can't help

When I see someone else sad

When I see what's going on in the world. You would think we would have learned from the wars- the recent bombings of schools and hospitals

When I want to watch 2 episodes of TV and I can't read books and I want to do both

When I work very hard and do my best and things don't go very well

When I'm alone

When I'm away from family

When I'm away from my family

When I'm not feeling in the best of health

When Mom and Dad are out

When Mom and Dad aren't there

When Mom and Dad leave

When my brother beats me up

When my brother kicks me

When my brothers don’t play basketball with me

When my children are struggling, otherwise thank God I don't have a lot

When my children are unhappy or not having my nest, my home/environment intact (having chaos there)

When my children don't pay attention to me

When my Dad takes away my LEGOs

When my family is not doing well (for instance my son)

When my father died it really affected me. He was very affectionate

When my feelings get hurt

When my friends play with other girls (and say they aren't doing anything but I know they are playing)

When my grandson is feeling sad

When my kids are emotionally hurt and I can't help them

When my kids get hurt

When my mom doesn't understand me

When my Mom's unhappy

When my Mother cries

When my sister beats me up

When my sister is sad

When no one plays with me

When nobody in my family is thinking about me

When others are upset or not cooperating

When others fail and I feel like it's my fault

When our beloved ones become traitors

When people are abusive to each other

When people are dying by bombs in a lot of countries

When people are having difficult times. Including my mother's state of affairs. Physical, sicknesses, emotional problems or whatever reasons. If they aren't happy because they achieve what they want

When people are in pain

When people are incapable of something

When people are inconsiderate of someone else

When people are sad

When people are unable to show empathy for others

When people around me are sad

When people around me are sad or things in the world that are unjust

When people close to me are hurt

When people don't get along. People don't communicate as often as they used to

When people treat each other in a bad way without a purpose or a reason

When some bad incident happens

When somebody hurts my feelings

When something happens to my kids or grandkids, my Son got cancer 3 years ago, that was probably the worst

When someone has passed away in the family

When someone hurts my feelings

When someone yells

When something isn't right for my family

When the rest of my family is not happy

When they go to play outside and I don't want to

When things happen to my family and kids that I can't control

When things happen to my family that are sad things (somebody's hurt or ill), bereavement

When you fall

When you fall down

When your expectations don't match reality

Worries about children

Worrying about things that don't matter