“There are things I’d
like to tell the version of myself who sat in the Planned Parenthood counseling
room. I would tell her that she is going through something large and she
shouldn’t be afraid she’s ‘making too big a deal of it.’ She shouldn’t be
afraid of not feeling enough because the feelings will keep coming—different ones—for
years. I would tell her that commonality doesn’t inoculate against hurt. The
fact of all of those women in the waiting room, doing the same thing I was
doing, didn’t make it any easier” (Jamison 11).
In something as
difficult as an abortion, feeling like your feelings are valid and deserve to
be seen becomes difficult—like the most difficult thing in the world. But those
feelings deserve to be seen because it is a difficult thing and no one else can
help you through those feelings. Just because someone else goes through the
same things as you do not mean that they know who you are feeling, that you and
the other person feel the same thing.
I chose this passage
because I’ve noticed how a lot of people struggle with showing their emotions.
People don’t know how to show that they are struggling, and they end up hurting
alone, without anyone knowing that they are suffering. I think people should
always know that their emotions are valid, that they are allowed to feel those
things, but people struggle with it, and I know that I have struggled with it,
as well. Just because you are around other people, should not mean that you
aren’t allowed to show your emotions and show that you are suffering.
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