[LJ Idol] The Elephant In The Room
Sometimes we use the term to describe something which exists, and sometimes... something that doesn't exist.
It can be a thing which people don't want to talk about despite its terrible presence: the illness of a loved one, an addiction, a mistake which has left a terrible mark. The words you said that can't be taken back but that for a time are ignored so that there can be at least some kind of social functioning.
I never really loved you
It can be the thing that is never spoken of, always put out of mind, because to think of it can be too painful for people to bring up, to discuss and reconcile.
I'm sorry about the miscarriage
It can be the brief conversation where you said something you knew, you knew would hurt and make everyone around uncomfortable because someone mentioned the elephant and you wanted them to not mention it anymore, and just to stop bothering you with it.
"when are you going to settle down and find a nice girl" "i did she's taken maybe my next incarnation will have someone in it for me"
Sometimes the thing that's there and the thing that's not there are the same thing, and it all depends on who's looking at it.
It doesn't matter. The point of it is that it hurts, and you don't want it to come out, because it's a private pain.
It can be a thing which people don't want to talk about despite its terrible presence: the illness of a loved one, an addiction, a mistake which has left a terrible mark. The words you said that can't be taken back but that for a time are ignored so that there can be at least some kind of social functioning.
I never really loved you
It can be the thing that is never spoken of, always put out of mind, because to think of it can be too painful for people to bring up, to discuss and reconcile.
I'm sorry about the miscarriage
It can be the brief conversation where you said something you knew, you knew would hurt and make everyone around uncomfortable because someone mentioned the elephant and you wanted them to not mention it anymore, and just to stop bothering you with it.
"when are you going to settle down and find a nice girl" "i did she's taken maybe my next incarnation will have someone in it for me"
Sometimes the thing that's there and the thing that's not there are the same thing, and it all depends on who's looking at it.
It doesn't matter. The point of it is that it hurts, and you don't want it to come out, because it's a private pain.