August 2022Collecting Sunsets is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. “It’s nothing compared to the pain that you must be going through, but it was pretty terrible for me at the time.” While I understand and appreciate that empathetic sentiment, anymore I truly wish that people would stop trying to qualify or downgrade their own pain. As if someone must always be suffering more.
"We can only hurt as much as we are capable of hurting. You can keep pouring water into a full glass all you want, but it can bear no more than it’s already collected. And we have all brimmed at one point or another." - a truer statement than I've ever heard. And what do we do when everything is running over? And yet some around us continue to heap more upon us, without considering we have met our capacity.
"We can only hurt as much as we are capable of hurting. You can keep pouring water into a full glass all you want, but it can bear no more than it’s already collected. And we have all brimmed at one point or another." - a truer statement than I've ever heard. And what do we do when everything is running over? And yet some around us continue to heap more upon us, without considering we have met our capacity.