It Hurts Because It Matters

As mentioned before: after some pretty spectacular trial and error, I'm no longer a fan of the "hurry-and-get-over-it" approach to difficult emotions. However well-intentioned it may be, denial simply doesn't work.

Here's what I've come to believe instead:

To put it even more simply:

It mattered.

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There comes a time to honor what matters in the only way I can: by offering all that's left of myself, by bowing to all that's here.