little_tippler

I was reading this and just thinking that everyone is talking like beating women is a thing of the past, so I had a laugh when I saw Shanifaye's post.

As far as I can tell the majority of people will not do anything to help a woman who is being beaten in her home, if they hear it from their home, most will turn a deaf ear unless it's very disturbing. Most people don't want to know about other people's lives unless it's happening right in front of them. Mos people are selfish I think.

And wife-beating is so, so common. It's all very well how you feel/think and how you voice your concern, but who does anything about it? The truth is it's easy to abuse someone, physically or verbally, given the chance, especially if the victim is so devoted to you they can't see the wood for the trees...

Don't know if you get me here, I don't mean to elicit any incensed responses but I'm tired of hearing people's eloquent speeches on life when things are never as black and white as we tell ourselves, day after day...

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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.

Fernando Pessoa, 1918