Posted by Deneb on June 16, 2006, at 0:08:03
I just read something someone wrote here and I feel their sadness and pain. I'm usually too caught up in myself to notice what others are feeling. I realized something. People pretend. People can pretend to be well, but they are often screaming with pain inside. This is very different from how I express myself online, but I do the same thing in real life. Some people do this even while online. They are in a corner all by themselves, not speaking of their pain. No one noticing. Suffering in silence.
Me, I'm an open book online. Secrets? What secrets? I write what I feel when I feel it, with little to no regard for others at times. I have the exact opposite problem.
I've discovered that the "happy" person I may be posting to may actually be miserable inside. When I'm happy I tend to forget that others are still suffering. I assume that everyone else is just as happy as I am.
I have to remember that people here have problems. Most people here are not happy. That is why they are here in the first place. I don't know why I never really noticed that.
I can read people writing that such and such a medication isn't working for them, but what I don't realize is that what they are saying is that they are still in terrible psychic pain. Most of the time I don't realize that people are suffering. I don't notice it unless they blatantly state it. I have to learn to think outside of myself. I hope I'm doing that.
I bet Dr. Bob sees the suffering within people. Maybe that's why we never see Dr. Bob really happy. I bet Dr. Bob isn't self absorbed.
I have to learn to be more sensitive and not so self absorbed.
Deneb*
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