My Parents Told Me To Pay My Sister’s Debt Or I Was No Longer Their Child

is the only proof the thing is real, and trying to describe it to someone who hasn’t had it is like trying to describe a color: the words exist but they are not the color.

What I could have told them, if I had wanted to try, is this: anger is still looking at the thing that hurt you. Still in relationship with it. Still letting it occupy the center continue reading …