.: ♫ — Of course, of course. He had seen through it- but it wasn’t hard to see through at all. She wasn’t even trying to lie. She turned away from him as he bluntly told her she was lying. As if she was denying this fact– not wanting to hear any of it.
If you are troubled, then accept it. You are only human.
How could she, if that meant troubling others? First her loved friends and family, next… total strangers? She was slacking. No, she was breaking. Masks were breaking, and she was desperately trying to keep it together. Why would she accept something like that?
Pushing your feelings aside will only make matters worse.
Time and time again, she had been told this. But she had survived so far. A long twenty-one years of it, struggling to keep it together, but… Even if she tried to say “don’t fix what isn’t broken,” well, this is broken.
“So… What should I do?” she asked quietly, still not looking at him. Another reminder of what she hid deep down. Just like him.
Oh, I wouldn’t know. I do not hold all the answers to each question the world has to ask. But if you were to ask me, from one stranger to another. . .
Silence. The wind blows, plants swaying in the breeze. Crickets creek, and stray fireflies dance.
“You live and live and live and keep moving forward, as you ought to not let your weights chain you down. Define you. Otherwise you’ll be going nowhere.”
Easier said than done, that, for a man who held so much guilt it nearly suffocates him. Crushes his very soul. Then he pondered, just what troubled the young woman’s mind. Of course he would have no idea to what it would be like to be in her shoes, or in her life- but all pain is relative.
We all suffer the same, in a way.
“Pain fades away...does it not? It’s only the person who decides to hold on to it on their on.”
Each person goes through their own trials and tribulations, their very own tale. In the many stories he heard, and the people he had met in his lifetime-- Lloyd knew no two people were exact. This wasn’t a contest of who had suffered the most or the least, who held out the biggest trophy of their badges of turmoil and anguish- as it was all the same in the end.
We all suffer the same, in a way.
“Just be...kind to yourself. If you cannot manage to do so, then you shall spend your days wandering around aimlessly in life as a husk until your body turns into dust.”
And with that, Lloyd had said his peace. Pivoting his foot to turn around to leave, he states his goodbyes. It wasn’t in his place to be there for her if she didn’t want him around. As he respects space.
Space. And the stars.
“I wish you luck.”
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