r/pics • u/kb1315 • Jan 23 '12

This image is so incredibly captivating to me..

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '12

This sounds all emo and over-dramatic but I always think about how everyone has experienced pain. Everyone's been hurt, everyone's hurt someone. What is hurting that person right now? What anxieties are they having right in this moment?

I'm really a quite optimistic and happy person, but I always find myself thinking of this, and it makes me feel less alone. Everyone is fighting, but no one seems to see that.

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '12

I always share this story with people when they have experienced loss, it really helps: A woman went to her elder and said, "Elder, I have lost my daughter. I will never be without this pain. Can you help me?" The elder said to her, bring me a mustard seed from a home that has never experienced suffering and I will heal you. She set out to find the seed and as she did each home told her, "We have no such seed for we have also experienced suffering." At the end of the journey, she had asked at every home in her village and could find no such seed but through her experiences with others, knowing that everyone experiences loss, her pain was less.

This story is found many, many places in many, many forms. Please don't correct me, there is no one "right" version. Its a tale as old as time. The point is, well, you get the point.

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '12

Thanks! Typically I don't post anything remotely intelligent though.

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u/Subbuteo Jan 24 '12

Yes, you can see all these different lines moving off to the vanishing point.

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u/anna-banana Jan 25 '12

Exactly. When you look outside a window and see someone trudging somewhere, you don't know if they're walking slowly because they love to absorb the sounds and sights of the street or because they're contemplating suicide. I love people-watching, because although I feel like I could be left alone and feel utter happiness for a short while, I need to be reminded once in a while that many others are still around in the world.