It’s surprising, the weight of things people carry.\u00a0 Sometimes you’ll see it in their eyes, before they can hide it.\u00a0 Sometimes you’ll\u00a0feel it in a quick nervous gesture or hear it in a half spoken thought.\u00a0 Most of the time though,\u00a0you won’t\u00a0know anything’s there at all.\u00a0<\/p>\n
If you know me, or have ever met me, you’ll know I complain a lot.\u00a0 Mostly about trivial things.\u00a0 It’s what I do.\u00a0 And it’s mostly in jest.\u00a0\u00a0I’ve been\u00a0described as stoic.\u00a0 Also\u00a0in jest.\u00a0 I’m anything but, except when it comes to things that actually matter.\u00a0 I’m coming across something that actually matters\u00a0and\u00a0I’d forgotten how hard\u00a0silence is.\u00a0 Not\u00a0that one has to carry heavy things in silence, but some things are too hard to carry\u00a0if you always have to acknowledge that they’re there.\u00a0\u00a0You can’t really talk about it until it’s almost gone.\u00a0\u00a0You walk around\u00a0with it, feeling its weight at times and ignoring it as best you can,\u00a0until one day\u00a0it feels lighter and you realize you’re ready to let it go.\u00a0 And\u00a0if you’re lucky, there’s someone there to listen.<\/p>\n
(Sorry, I didn’t mean for this post to be as cryptic as it ended up being. Just some things floating around my head and details I don’t want to get into – either because they aren’t my details to share or because I’m just not ready to get into them.\u00a0 And I know I’m very fortunate in that I have a lot of amazing someones to listen.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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