1) If you are in pain, let people know. 2) If someone is in pain, reach out. Even a text. A card. A nod. Some form of acknowledgement. Anything. A balloon. A cookie. Wine. (I like wine.) 3) Never feel like you shouldn’t say something because why would your voice matter? Because that person already has a lot of support. Because you think you will be a burden. Because you don’t know what to say. (I got a few texts from people that said they didn’t reach out because they thought I was probably inundated. Or that they didn’t matter.) 4) Pain is pain. Even though I am not dying and I don’t have cancer or whatever else it may be, I have still been going through a hard time. That’s not nothing. Don’t judge your pain. Or anyone else’s. 5) Be willing to be with people even if they are not fine, good, happy, perfect, rainbows, unicorns. 6) Notice your tendency to pay attention to the one who doesn’t text/call/like you rather than the loads that do. *Thanks as always to SimpleReminders. An older post I wrote on judging. xo Jennifer Pastiloff
Posted on: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 07:36:29 +0000
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