SHUT ME UP, PART II . . .

When people ask you what's going on, do you ever say "nothing" even though something is going on, because it's just easier to say "nothing" than to say "everything," because if you said "everything," you'd really mean a list of about 1,853 things, and when people ask "what's going on," they rarely, if ever, really want to know?

Yeah.
Me too.

(But then do you ever come across that one rare soul to whom you can say "nothing and everything," and they understand exactly what you mean, and so then you sort of feel like the "nothing" is less heavy, and the "everything" is just a tiny bit reduced by that one longed-for glimpse of empathy and care?

Yeah.
Me too.)

I guess all of us just want to be heard.