I’ve learned it’s because so many are having a rough go at it themselves and don’t want to carry your heaviness along with theirs. They're either not strong enough to, don’t care about you enough to, or are that set on living in the delusion that if you don’t acknowledge the reality that is the darkness, it doesn’t exist and can’t harm them. And I’ll admit…I’ve been all three of those people at some point. But more so I’ve been the one who sticks around through those difficult times to listen, to console, even help in bringing a person back up to where they want to fight just to be able to stand tall again. People will easily reveal who they are when you present them with the realness they’re often hiding from, and if they need to excuse themselves just so they can feel they can breathe then so be it. It makes you wise in knowing who you can and can’t turn to when you’re in the depths, but also who you can turn to when you want to lighten things up a bit.
