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The Truth Behind The Pain You’ve Been Hiding
In a previous article, I talked about how silence is a skill I honed and learned to master.
It’s served me well, having grown up in a world where people (aka my family) loooove to talk and hear their voice.
I believe, and on some levels, you do too, that the chatty Cathy’s often talk a lot as a means to cover up real pains. Deep hurts. Things that are holding them back.
That’s not to say that my family was in pain, so just roll with me here a minute.
And then the age of the internet was upon us and a college kid known today as ‘Zuck’ launched Facebook, and the advent of social media shoved us into a new era.
Like Jack Nicholas in ‘The Shining’, smashing an ax through the bathroom door and plowing his face into my space, (heh-heh, pun intended) Facebook, Insta, Twitter and now Tik-Tok is firmly entrenched into our lives. And like it or not…
“Heeeerrrrees’ Johnny!”
(Unless, of course, you’re off the grid on some island in the arctic, but then you wouldn’t be reading this, so we’re all good.)
But I digress…
Ok, so here’s where I’m going with this.
Social media has now given the folks who used chattiness to cover up pain as a…
