"How It Feels"

"Darkness is acceptable and even attractive so long as there is a threshold that is not crossed. But most people I know who suffer, suffer 
relentlessly and unendingly no matter what sort of future is proposed (“it’ll get better/it won’t always be this like/you will start to heal/
I know it’s such a cliché but you really will come out of this stronger in the end”).

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Why is it so humiliating to go on and on about something that means a lot to you only to be told, “Wow, you spend a lot of time thinking about stuff, don’t you?”

Or: “So, you’re one of those people who analyzes everything, huh?”

Or: “That’s kind of dark.”

Or worse: “Um ... OK.”

...

Why are some people’s feelings so repellent and others so madly alluring? ...
I don’t know if we, as a culture, feel compelled to extend much sympathy to those who are half alive. Half alive is not dead."
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/article/250614?utm_campaign=eaed58dd24-How_about_some_tennis1_17_2016

This was beautiful.