I was about to head out and was thinking about this passage from The Body (made into the movie Stand By Me). I think it is true for everyone to some degree. For me it is everyday, especially with the medical stresses, but for other things recently too. Empathy is so important. The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them - words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when theyre brought out. But its more than that, isnt it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what youve said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. Thats the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller, but for want of an understanding ear. ― Stephen King, Different Seasons - The Body
Posted on: Sat, 23 Nov 2013 23:27:35 +0000
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