It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
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The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
You have to give a wound time to heal and think of other people's feelings.
No day-to-day mishaps or indignities can really compromise your sense of self after you've survived a deep tragedy.
I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it.
No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.
There's a general impulse to distract the grieving person - as if you could.
It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
When you go through a traumatic event, there's a lot of shame that comes with that. A lot of loss of self-esteem. That can become debilitating.
There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.
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