Often that's true, but... y'know, if you're working on healing, sooner of later you've got to talk about it. I run up against that one a lot; there's all this stuff that happened in my teens, and even though I'm 48 years old now, it still rips me up to even think about it, let alone write about it or, worse, talk about it. I have to, though - even if I write it only for myself, I can't hold it in silence forever.
Kír's the same way, only more so because he has less trust in people, and every time he writes something 'personal' he feels like he should delete his whole journal and never write anything again. He doesn't, but that's how it feels.
It's a big fat slap in the face to EVERYONE who's ever struggled to find the courage to talk about their pain, to say "if it was real you wouldn't tell anyone." That's exactly like telling a person who admits to suicidal ideation that if they were serious they'd just do it, not talk about it.
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Date: 2005-08-04 11:11 pm (UTC)Often that's true, but... y'know, if you're working on healing, sooner of later you've got to talk about it. I run up against that one a lot; there's all this stuff that happened in my teens, and even though I'm 48 years old now, it still rips me up to even think about it, let alone write about it or, worse, talk about it. I have to, though - even if I write it only for myself, I can't hold it in silence forever.
Kír's the same way, only more so because he has less trust in people, and every time he writes something 'personal' he feels like he should delete his whole journal and never write anything again. He doesn't, but that's how it feels.
It's a big fat slap in the face to EVERYONE who's ever struggled to find the courage to talk about their pain, to say "if it was real you wouldn't tell anyone." That's exactly like telling a person who admits to suicidal ideation that if they were serious they'd just do it, not talk about it.