Do you know what I discovered tonight? That you
can love someone so much that, as they are suffering deeply, you hold yourself
back in fully living that love and the realization hits you that it is because
of the fear that your love is somehow inadequate.
Or so I thought. Then it occurred to me that it
isn’t that you don’t bring all of your love to bear, but rather that you
couldn’t admit to yourself, that your love for them is so unfathomably
deep, you fear the moment you will see the contrast between your love and their
suffering, like a grotesque reflection in the mirror, and be overwhelmed by
pain.
So very true!
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