My father was a writer. He wrote all of his life, inflicting upon many of us his novels, plays, articles, essays, and self-help books. Some were marvelous; some merely well-intentioned. But of all the things he wrote, his journal is his legacy: by turns wise and bewildering, it neared 1,100 type-written pages when he died in 2010. Although perused many times, this is the first time it will be read - cover to cover, page after page.
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
My Sadness, My Pain
People sometimes seem annoyed that I do not "share," that I do not offer them my sadness or my pain so they might respond to it. I do not wish I could do what they want, and in a sense they would not appreciate I have no interest in how they might acknowledge what I feel. There is none of this "sharing" in part because I do not want what they would offer; and in part I want my feeling to stay my own, something about which I might tarry but which is available to no one else.
Labels:
pain,
people,
sadness,
sharing,
solidarity
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