When you drop a glass or a plate to the ground, it makes a crashing sound. When a window shatters, a table breaks, or a picture fall of the wall, it makes noise. But as for your heart, when that breaks, it's completely silent... and you almost wish there was a noise to distract you from the pain.
Interpretation
The pain of a broken heart is silent and deeply profound, unlike the physical sounds of breaking objects.
This quote reflects on the emotional pain of heartbreak, contrasting it with the physical sounds associated with broken objects. Ahern suggests that while tangible items make noise when they break, the anguish of a broken heart is often quiet and isolating, leading one to yearn for some external distraction from such deep sorrow.
In practice
In a support group for friends experiencing heartbreak.
life's kind of like a painting. A really bizarre, abstract painting. You could look at it and think that all it is, is a blur. And you could continue living your life thinking that all it is, is just a blur. But if you really look at it, really see it, focus on it, and use your imagination, life can become so much more. The painting could be of the sea, the sky, people,buildings, a butterfly on a flower, or anything except the blur you were once convinced it was.
When we are unable to receive, we deny someone else the pleasure of giving.
I like being married. It's an institution that I like.
I wondered how many people there were in the world who suffered, and continued to suffer, because they could not break out from their own web of shyness and reserve, and in their blindness and folly built up a great distorted wall in front of them that hid the truth.
The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there's nothing really to talk about.
I can remember, when I was in college, irritating deeply somebody I was going out with, because he would ask me what I was thinking and I would say I was thinking nothing. And it was true.
True forgiveness is when you can say, "Thank you for that experience.
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