When I say that pain is relative, I mean that it is very nearly a law of the Universe. If a meteor were to hit the Sun, then the Sun would simply swallow it up, and all evidence of the impact would be gone within a cosmic millisecond. If that same meteor hit the Earth, the scar would affect it for a long while. But still, it would eventually heal and be forgotten. If the same impact had occurred on the Moon, the scar would remain for as long as the moon still exists.
Over time, these celestial objects are hit with many meteors. The Sun would retain no scars. The Earth may have a few scars at a time, all in different stages of healing. But the Moon still has every scar it has ever attained, none of them ever healing, all of them exactly as if they had just been inflicted.
Some people are affected by trauma like the Sun: it barely affects them at all. It may for a little bit, but no more. Others are like the Earth: the scars of their trauma affect them a long time, but they heal eventually. Still others are like the Moon: their scars will never heal. No matter how much time is put between them and the event, it will always feel fresh, as though it just happened.
Some people believe that only Sun People are strong, because they are never affected at all by any trauma. Most people also are beginning to believe that Earth People are strong as well. Even though they feel the effects of what they survived, the sting will dull over time for them, and all of their scars will heal. They can “get over it.”
But I still wait for the day when people realize that Moon People are stronger than they ever could have thought. For one must be immeasurably strong to still feel every impact ever inflicted upon them so strongly, as if it all just happened in this instant, and still not break apart due to the pressure and trauma. They are not weak for not having healed. Rather, they are strong for having not completely shattered.
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