Why are you leaving me? He wrote, I do not know how to live. I do not know either but I am trying. I do not know how to try. There were some things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So i buried them and let them hurt me Jonathan Safran Foer
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The thing that I wanted to tell him was that he was doing a great job and that I was proud of him. I knew that if I said it, the words would stick in my throat and make me choke. But if he could not hear those words from me, he would hear them from someone else and it would hurt even more.It is understandable that we cannot know how to try. He wrote, “There were some things I wanted to tell him.

But I knew they would hurt him”. He knew that the things he wanted to tell his son were going to cause him pain. He chose not to say them out of respect for his son’s feelings.

There is no shame in being wrong. There is only shame in letting others know you are wrong.

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