: As a sibling of someone considered "abnormal" by society's standards, and the daughter of someone suffering from chronic illness, I share my thoughts on the majority's view of such trials.
We never feel the intensity of someone else's trial until we go through the same trial or similar circumstances. Everybody knows that giving birth hurts, but we never realize how much until we ourselves become mothers. Everybody knows having an amputated limb is hard but we never shed a tear for someone on that condition until we lose one of our limbs or senses. Similarly, we faintly sympathize with individuals having genetic disorders, or chronic diseases but we do not realize the pains pricking their hearts every second of every day for all their lives. And let's not forget the victims of psychological abuse, perhaps the worst of these trials. We stay blind to the pain of those closest to us - children, parents, spouses; remain blind to the silent suffering we might be inducing onto them, until one day it makes them into an ugly person behaviorally, and/or inflicts physical suffering on them.
We need to revive humanity, we need to be human again, we need to just feel keeping aside the fake specs of sympathy. People need other people to heal the wounds on their souls and hearts. If only we had doctors who cured all these ailments. If only mirrors showed the real faces of people. We would all have a hard time finding real beauty then. Because beauty is in feeling...feelings last forever, while out of sight makes out of mind.
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