Sometimes I wish that the people I love could see the things I see. I wish they could see the things I cannot tell.

I can't or won't tell because it would hurt them, or they wouldn't hear. I cannot tell because it's the kind of thing they really have to discover for themselves. This thing, or things as it may be, are the things that would change their lives completely if they simply would know it.

It's that someone else is the cause of their pain, it's that they are the cause of their own pain, it's the fact that they are wonderful the way they are, it's the fact that we aren't who we used to be, it's that they need help they're not allowing themselves to have, it's that they deserve to be loved, it's that it'll happen when it happens, it's that they need to take on less responsibilities, it's that they need to take on more, it's that they need to just do it and stop talking about it, it's that being fearless (or faking fearlessness) is the only way it's going to happen, it's that their fear is OK, it's that we're not kids anymore, it's that it's not their fault, it could never be their fault that something like that happened to them, it's that with all certainty I know they can do it, it's that absolutely nothing worth having is going to happen without hard work, it's that I love them and nothing could change that.

I wish that I could know the things that they see about me. I wish I knew the choices they see that they wish I could make and whisper softly to themselves when they are alone.

I wish that we could reassure one another completely with the knowledge that we have of one another and rest in the knowing that the other sees us best, and simply believe.