oh, it was fun while it lasted...but all good things must come to an end, right?

Empathy...

...is one of the strongest ways that we connect with others, whether they are our friends or family, or people we've never even met or spoken to. It spans the divide between religions, races, and economic differences to tie people together in an emotional, psychological, and sometimes physical context. Empathy allows us to relate to one another and provides us with a support network that we don't realize exists most of the time--until we need it.

To reach out and touch someone, to comfort them with the words and the gesture of "I understand" is one of the most powerful feelings I can attest to. It's wonderful to have people care about you and what happens to you, but it's even better to have people to really understand and identify with what you're going through. Only these people can really know how you may be feeling, because they've been there before. We need more of this kind of people in our lives, just as we need our friends and family to be there for us. One person is not going to understand everything that you experience nor know why it upsets you, so we seek a multitude of people who are outside of our comfort realms to show us why it is that we feel a certain way. Sometimes we do it without thinking; sometimes without even knowing that we are connecting to another individual on the same emotion.

So I'd like to say this, to an almost perfect stranger...I know how you feel.
I'm right there with you. I can't promise it will be easy to deal with, or that it will get better soon, but it will get better.

To everyone who reads this, make an effort to find those you can reach out and touch when that comfort is needed--you never know what kind of connection you can make.

when the rain comes

so this song has been stuck in my head for a long, long while...very pretty...by third day, if you haven't heard anything by them, hit me up, i have some of their music.

When the Rain Comes
When the rain comes it seems that everyone has
gone away
When the night falls you wonder if you shouldn't
find someplace
To run and hide / Escape the pain
But hiding's such a lonely thing to do

I can't stop the rain / From falling down on you again
I can't stop the rain / But I will hold you 'til it goes away

When the rain comes you blame it on the things that
you have done
When the storm fades you know that rain must fall
on everyone
So rest awhile / it'll be alright
No one loves you like I do

I can't stop the rain / From falling down on you again
I can't stop the rain / But I will hold you 'til it goes away

When the rain comes/ I will hold you

life is a lot like a house of mirrors

what is the point of making an effort when that effort is shot through with holes? makes you feel like crap that you ever tried at all...and makes you even less likely to make another effort...i see this happening and yet i'm like a fool in a fun house of mirrors, running headlong into another one just because i think i see the passage out...

i hate it when i pour my heart out, all my feelings and i'm crying because it hurts to say those things, and yet the person i'm trying to make see the point still misses it entirely. i wonder why i even take the time.