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xelda I told him that if he wanted to share his pain, I could take it.
I told him that I loved how easy it was to make him laugh.
He told me that he appreciated my willingness to hold his pain, but that the laughter was what he wanted.
So I went at it as relentlessly as I could. The laughs kept coming, resonant, forming a warm blanket over the pain.
I felt like I was offering all that I could, while still keeping myself intact.
But now there's this nagging thought: If I had known, I would have given more, and recovered later.
But there was no way to know.
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flowerock Reminds me of the ending of Schindler's List. 151112
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Risen I know that feeling.

Being told to laugh, not talk about the serious stuff. I did it. For far too long.

And the serious stuff built up and up, and it did not go away because we ignored it. And she never gave her all to either the serious or the fun.
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unhinged but my heart is currently flailing against groundlessness

this constant sense of deficiency
of insecurity
of struggle
of hopelessness
is exhausting


i don't believe in love anymore
the_friend_fallacy tells me otherwise
stepping_stone to heal others
while my own wounds are ripped wider and wider

i am alone
there is no way to know
if that will ever change
no matter what others think i deserve
i know my feet will carry me
but sometimes i just don't want to keep going
there is no way to know
if this path will lead me to anything better
i am done expecting that
on one hand i am relieved
on the other i am sadder than i have ever been
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