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Whisp

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13. I'm so sorry, Terra.
Tue Jan 21, 2014, 10:48 PM
Jan 2014

you are not alone, but I know it does feel like that sometimes.

What I found is people do want to reach out and help, but confronting other's deep sadness is a risk to them because people would rather be like water spiders and run across the surface and not look any deeper, it's safer that way, or so we've been told and trained. We are trained actors most of our lives because we think no one will like the real us. And that is not true, but it sure feels like it sometime.

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