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Date: | Fri, 11 May 2012 19:42:58 +0300 |
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I recently read the conversation Alexandra started about offensive
platitudes people sometimes give to people who've just lost a person
or animal to death.
Another prime situation for that sort of thing is when someone learns
you have just received a terrible diagnosis. When I told a masseuse
about my breast cancer diagnosis 12 yrs ago, and expressed my terror,
she said something like
It will make you a better person to go through it.
I was ready to shoot her, but I was already on her massage table, and
it would have been really messy.
Often people really don't know what to do or say. Their defenses can
produce such f@kd up responses.
A couple of other people immediately launched into horrific tales of
the torments and death someone they knew or had only heard of had gone
through.
After a while, I saw the whole thing like a gigantic Rorschach test.
[Posted in FML 7423]
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