I’m special. I know you’re wondering how I know. But I’ve always known, crazy as that sounds. In fact, I suspect most people who haven’t experienced big, deep pain probably agree with this. And anyone who has experienced a massive life event that brought them deep pain, they’ll probably confirm it: Not suffering pain makes you special. Since life inevitably
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The writing life requires courage…It requires the willingness to be alone with oneself. To be gentle with oneself. – Dani Shapiro What we don’t know can and does hurt us. The old saying was never true. We hurt when we’re ignorant, and so does everyone else. In fact, I wonder if ignorance is the main reason we experience so much pain in
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You can fight back from injury, full of that feeling of the fire in you to fight back against the pain–pain in your body, in your life, in your past over all the chances you weren’t given–and still end up hopeless. I sit on the deck in the setting sun, pushing back against the self-pity that traps the weak who feel imprisoned by
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