Not that I want to overy pimp my own stories, but I had posted this one just a few days ago at SH911. I usually use stories as a way to get a point across. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. Only the reader knows for sure. I did get some lovely comments on this, and for those I am grateful. Then I stumbled on this phrase today and it made me stop in my tracks because it was exactly what I was trying to say, So I thought I would reference it with my little story.
"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places." Ernest Hemingway
https://archiveofourown.org/works/10036001