We were talking the other night about
the phrases one uses when trying
to comfort someone who is distress.
he told me that in english
they sometimes say "I've been there".
it was unclear for me at first
"you've been where?".
but then he explained that deep grief
sometimes is almost like a specific
location, a coordinate on a map of time.
when you are standing in the forest of sorrow,
you can not imagine that you
could ever find your way to a better place.
but if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in the same place, and now had moved on,
sometimes this will bring hope.
"so sadness is a place?" I asked.
"sometimes people live there for years." he said.
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