Pragmatic
2007 09 05
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Sometimes I'm too pragmatic. I think I'm being sympathetic and nurturing, and other people take it as unfeeling and lacking in understanding of the human animal. I feel inadequate next to the rafts of theretheres and shared experience. This pragmatism, my attempts to put a different spin on whatever situation is under emotional scrutiny, is all I have to offer; but it pales, it seems, next to tea and tears and sympathy. I have only tea and sympathy. I am the nursemaid who brings the tissues to wipe the tears, even if I can't share them. It's all I have.