Pain of the Depths
When you walk through the town centre carrying a bouquet of roses and carnations, and two lonely middle aged women jump up, sarcastically exclaiming that you've brought them flowers...so you give them one rose each, thinking that there's no one to probably give them bouquets... When you sit helplessly at work after completing an hour long survey, crying silently as the other woman on the end of the phone is sobbing so hard she can barely speak, because you've just raked up the depths of her heart...her husband with cancer newly returned, her son with epilepsy that the doctors won't diagnose...of course there was empathy and that's why it opened her... When you ride home on a bus and have a phone call telling you someone's depressed and your heart sinks into the bottom of your boots... When you make a firm and cheerful decision to move to buy a house that will saddle you with debt for twenty-five years... When you realise that you will see your father aga...
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