Markus ZusakTogether, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction.
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Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction. Many of us who have had close encounters with divorce, know what it is like to sit and watch something that we worked so hard for fall apart before our eyes. Even though we were not physically there, we did feel the pain and the devastation of the situation we were watching. We would be sitting in a room full of people and we could hear it all outside of our own room.
The sounds of breaking glass and crying children could be heard echoing across the valley. The sound of cars crashing into each other or people screaming in pain could be heard even farther away. Even though we were not hurting physically, we felt the pain of these people loss so strongly because it was something that was so closely tied to us.
Whether or not you are currently experiencing that kind of pain, watching someone else suffer can be just as painful as suffering that pain yourself.
Source: The Book Thief
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