i think that most people think they're tougher than they really are. only it hurts when things happen and they realize that they're wrong, especially when they wanted so dearly to prove that everyone else was wrong.

i don't know if others notice when people who are trying to be brave let slip their emotions and find tears welling up in their eyes. the tears do not fall, mind you, but sit there, glistening, as the person blinks their red eyes and straightens their shoulders in an attempt to change the way they really feel. but i suppose there is little else to do when situations are out of your control and breaking down is not going to change anything.

people say that they want transparency in affairs to know what is really going on, but it doesn't seem like anyone wants people's personalities to be lucid. and besides, their feelings are much too dangerous to everyone else's well-being, right?