michaelboy

for the better part of my life i've been trying to unglorify pain.

i don't mean i won't wallow. how i love a good wallow!

just that pain isn't an instrument to be forged by. pain isn't a metric to judge others on. pain happens to all of us.

but if there's one thing that seems commoner among those who've had quite a lot of it, it's the understanding that validating another's pain, soothes ones own as well.