Pain Score 10/10
There are things in life that anyone who has been through real pain in life can relate to - how difficult it is to convey just how bad the situation was to someone else. Sharing one's trauma is not easy. Don't be surprised if your best friend since many years has been keeping a lot of things from you. Compartmentalising is easier than sharing. People don't need to know how hurt you are and that makes it easier for you to pretend you're not hurt at all. But there comes a phase in every traumatized person's life where they feel the need to share their experiences. It is at that moment that we make the (very common) mistake of sharing with the wrong person. And then you never feel like opening up again. Sharing Pain I've shared quite a few tales of trauma and sadness on this blog but the truth is, things are actually quite worse than it appears on this blog. A few years ago, a lot of bad things happened to me which I don't feel comfortable writing about or