A Separate Peace : John Knowles

[umleroi]

There are things you don't want to talk about. Events, conversations, feelings that you wish weren't brought up. They make you uncomfortable and you don't believe you're capable of dealing with them. They are severe and jarring perhaps traumatic. But sometimes, just sometimes, there are moments just as severe and traumatic, but deeper. They're

Comments

[ksenour]

Some of the best conversations you can have with a person are about the things they hope and dread you'll ask them about.

Sometimes the best feeling you'll ever have is after you say those things outloud to another person, or after you listen to someone say them to you.

Its an interesting phenomenon, I agree... Sometimes I think kids have it right. No fear of asking the questions that "should" be left alone. But, we're taught as we grow up that there are things you don't talk about. You lose that innocence. And that's sad.