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I do believe this.

And I do this.

I leave important words unsaid.

They may be important to me, but that doesn't mean that they matter to anyone else.

They may be about a way that I feel, about someone, something...but if that isn't shared, or understood, where's the reason to speak the words?

Don't assume it isn't, just because you don't hear it. Not from me, at any rate.

If you want to know and you just aren't sure...
Ask.

Now, if only I could follow that advice. But I am very, very careful to not ask what I am not certain I am prepared to hear and handle.

It's my struggle. And even in here I don't open that part of me up.