Bad things happen and if we are lucky, we pull together to ease each other's way.
Sharing our stories is one way of saying, I understand, or am trying to understand, what you're going through. Although I cannot take this pain away from you, I can listen with loving ears and share my own pain, or shame, or anger if it will help.
It is in this sharing that we become closer to each other. It indicates an openness and trust that we don't extend to everyone.
It takes a long time to forge a human being and sometimes we are held to the fire more times than we think it is possible to endure, but endure we do. The bonds that occur during all of this are some of the strongest and best it is possible to have.
Knowing someone will stand beside me in spite of and because of who I am, makes me an extraordinarily fortunate human being.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment