Silent Servants...
... of the Used, Abused, and Utterly Screwed Up.
A Secular Franciscan looks at the world...
with a more jaundiced eye than ever...
and lots of ellipses for you to fill in the missing text...
(with thanks to Thomas S. Klise for the title)
"The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though it may be in the form of a monstrous egotism: this pain of mine is individual, this nerve that winces belongs to me and to no other. But happiness annihilates us: we lose our identity." - Graham Greene (The End of the Affair)Why do some people engage in self-harm? Because when they hurt, they feel. It's not just the egotism that's monstrous...
if it remains low profile and no one tries to make money off of it, the comment at the end of the article might be the most important thing..."Whatever is causing the tears, it's bringing smiles to many peoples' faces."
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