PLN 21

Everybody feels pain; mentally and physically. Physical pain is on the outside and can heal. Mental pain, sticks with you. Sometimes, pain builds up to be too much to handle. I know people say that pain can be tucked away by distracting yourself, or thinking positively, but this is not always true. Yes, it may help, but deep down, there raises a pain so ridicule and so unbarring that there is nothing that you can do to stop it. Sadly, I do not know this from the countless psychology articles I have read, or the heartbreaking stories you read in the news, I know this from my own self-experience. Whether it be broken relationships, a broken heart, or a broken family, everyone goes through something that’s hard on them. In the article, “Jaycee Lee Dugard and Other Kidnapping Stories Where the Missing Child was Found Alive,” it talks about a little girl who got kidnapped at age 11 and was not found until age 29. Her family told the writers of the article how devastated they were. They said their hearts were literally broken in half. I know I am not able to understand the pain that Jaycee’s family was going through, but I know that I have felt the pain of losing a friend. It’s not easy. You feel like your second half is missing. You feel as if you’re not complete and something huge is missing. I know this is nothing compared to Jaycee’s story, but sometimes even the littlest of pain can feel as if your heart was “literally broken in half.”