The Fragility of Reality
We let people we love help construct our version of lived realities. We have to, because we spend time with them. We have experiences with them. We share our thoughts with them. Because we’ve developed trust, it’s likely we share other emotions that have helped to bond us to them. But what happens when the person you’ve come to trust constructs a reality for you that has holes in it? Some parts are just blatantly false, you come to learn. The dissolution of those portions, whenever and however that might happen, may rattle you to the core. And yet just...