No one ever told me how sorrow traumatizes your heart, making you think it will never beat exactly the same way again. No one ever told me how grief feels like a wet sock in my mouth. One I’m forced to breathe through, thinking that with each breath I’ll come up short and suffocate. Sarah Noffke
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No one ever told me how sorrow traumatizes your heart making you think it will never beat exactly the same way again. No one ever told me how grief feels like a wet sock in my mouth. One I'm forced to breathe through, thinking that with each breath I'll come up short and suffocate. We all know this feeling of suffocating.

Of not being able to breathe. Of not being able to get air into our lungs. We know how it feels, and we still find ourselves suffocating on a regular basis.

If we could talk to that person who is suffocating on a regular basis, what would we say? We would probably want to tell them that they are okay, that they are doing okay, but that there are almost certainly people who are hurting more than you, who are hungry more than you, who are worried more than you. We would want to reassure them that they will be okay, even though it may not seem that way at the moment. This is so so important because it is so difficult for people to believe that someone else is suffering even more than they are.

So many of us have gone through times where we were convinced that everyone else was suffering more than us. So much so that we felt like the world was ending.

Source: Awoken

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