What If No One Ever Really Gets You?
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What If No One Ever Really Gets You?
George Orwell once said: The most terrible loneliness is not the kind that comes from being alone, but the kind that comes from being misunderstood; the loneliness of standing in a crowded room, surrounded by people who do not see you, who do not hear you, who do not know the true essence of who you are. And in that loneliness, you feel as though
... See moreyou never really know anyone
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we live with a quiet, often unspoken tension- the aching desire to be truly seen, understood and accepted , yet simultaneously, the impulse to hide, to hold back, to keep parts of ourselves locked away from others’ eyes.
the paradox of craving to be seen but fearing being known
"You cannot make evervone think and feel as deeply as you do. This is your tragedy, because you understand them but they do not understand you. People can only understand us at the depths in which they have met themselves."