Darius the Great Is Not Okay
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I didn’t know how to talk about that. About how sad I was. About how bad I felt.
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“they don’t know you, darioush.” sohrab grabbed my shoulder. “i wish you could see yourself the way i see you.”
i wanted to reach out for him, to put my hand on his shoulder, to let him excrete stress hormones or scream or do whatever he needed to do.
but the walls weren’t just inside him.
they were between us.
i didn’t know how to breach them.
It’s frustrating to love someone and be unable to help them. It’s frustrating to repeat the same cycle of misunderstandings over and over again. It’s frustrating to constantly tell yourself that, if you could just figure out the secret, you could make everything better—but you can’t.
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“You’re okay,” he murmured. “No. I’m not.” “I know.” He rubbed my back up and down. “It’s okay not to be okay.”
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