Once you’ve walked through the world with invisible, unbearable hurt, you become part of a club nobody wants to belong to. In my case, as the daily pain of chronic illness became my norm, I found myself seeing the world in a new light.
It created an awareness, on an intimate level, ofthe very real possibility that any person I encountered might also be experiencing undetectable, yet very significant, pain.
This made me acutely sensitive to the fragile nature of external appearances, and the extent to which a person is capable of masking and hiding deep despair.
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