Thank you for your kind offer, truly. My current grief is no secret. And I am seeking counseling.
[There's a long pause before another message comes through.]
In a way, I did have someone like that, although we fought only with words. Well, two people, really. Both who guarded my life until that war, when I was young, was over. One was a mentor of sorts, and his student, who was my age, and became someone I love most dearly.
We were reunited here, you see, that man the student grew into. Without all the obstacles in our lives, keeping us apart, if we did not wish them to. And now he is gone again. Along with one of my only remaining blood kin, who I finally had a chance to reconcile with.
So, I agree that being able to trust someone deeply, is often needed to heal. But it was not his ability to 'take' my anger then made me love and trust him, I don't think. It was that he stood up to me. That he made me re-examine my beliefs. That he let me fall apart, with him. He made me want to be a better person.
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[There's a long pause before another message comes through.]
In a way, I did have someone like that, although we fought only with words. Well, two people, really. Both who guarded my life until that war, when I was young, was over. One was a mentor of sorts, and his student, who was my age, and became someone I love most dearly.
We were reunited here, you see, that man the student grew into. Without all the obstacles in our lives, keeping us apart, if we did not wish them to. And now he is gone again. Along with one of my only remaining blood kin, who I finally had a chance to reconcile with.
So, I agree that being able to trust someone deeply, is often needed to heal. But it was not his ability to 'take' my anger then made me love and trust him, I don't think. It was that he stood up to me. That he made me re-examine my beliefs. That he let me fall apart, with him. He made me want to be a better person.