However, I'm also the one who "seems to have it all"--nice house, cool car, great job, wonderful husband, smart kid in (a private) college...all of which I'm so grateful for--and I can tell you right now my life is not happy. In fact, my life hasn't been worry-free in a really long time. Sure, there are hours when I'm pretty calm and stress-free, but there are at least 2 hours every day that are Hell. The only difference on a daily basis is which circle of Hell: immersion in boiling blood, upside-down burial in shit, or worse.
So, again, I plead with you all, remember that everyone -- E V E R Y O N E -- you meet is carrying a heavy load. Sometimes you can see it, or you've been told about it, or you can empathize for whatever reason; more often you have no idea. Because people are astoundingly good actors right up until they break into millions of pieces.
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In some ways, it's good that it all doesn't show on our faces, 'cause we'd never get the business of living done for all the emotions we'd have to wade through--our own and everyone else's. But in so many other ways, jeez wouldn't it be nice sometimes if you could just offer a peek to the disbelieving, like peeling back a bandage or showing an x-ray? As if "proof" of the hurt should be necessary for some consideration.
I don't think I could bear to see all that pain. Easier for me to just keep reminding myself not to be envious even when...
...yeah, crying....again....
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Praying
Wishing
and
Hoping
thinking of you, hoping for better times. hugs
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