there are some things in life that in your mind you know are possible...things that you know could happen at any moment and because you know that it somehow makes you prepared...
...but its like going to visit someone in the hospital having seen them the day before and nothing was wrong...
...how do you prepare for something like that...
...it came just as unexpectedly as a loved one being in the hospital would...seeing someone's weakness for the first time being more than their strength could bear...watching tears fall, not out of reverence, but out of fear...
...it feels unnerving having someones eyes plead with you for help to bear their load...especially when up until that very moment all youve ever found in those eyes was strength wisdom and comfort...
...and then i started thinking...
...why is it that though my mind knows someone crying on my shoulder isnt life threatening my heart would react as if it were...why does my heart break just the same...
...i wonder if thats why vulnerability is so difficult a position to be in...the people around is need help, but its not an illness to be cured...or a curse...its the realization that its not a one-man show...we were designed to need people...to need God...
...i should not feel so helpless when a friend needs a comforting word as i would abviously be to save a loved one from their death bed...
...being weak is unnerving...comforting someone in weakness is sometimes intimidating...neither should stifle an action or a response...
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