Tuesday 2 April 2013

A shoulder to cry on


Just because they don’t cry, does that mean that they don’t hurt? People tell you to be a “big boy” and stop crying; so you do. Does it change the fact that you feel hurt deep down inside? Does the fact that you never shed a tear invalidate how you feel inside? Does it mean that you never need to be comforted, never need to be coddled, never need a shoulder to lean on?
What you define as “normal” doesn’t change the fact that it might still hurt. Death is a normal occurrence. It’ll happen to everyone without fail. Why is it insensitive to say “Oh, it’s just a normal thing (death). Don’t think too much about it” yet completely fine to dismiss that glimmer of possibility that any other normal occurrence might hurt someone?

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