So I’ve stumbled upon something that is beyond pathetic. It is perhaps the most demoralizing blow that can be dealt to someone in a wounded emotional state or difficult time.
I have no name for it, and I won’t go into depth to describe it, but perhaps this phrase will help you to understand.
Prompted sympathy.
It’s an insult.
It’s an injury all by itself.
It’s like finding someone hanging from a cliff screaming for help and doing nothing but throw rocks at them, just to show them that you’re there. They knew you were there all along, the only question was if you were there for them. Unknowingly that question is answered. Unfortunately, the results are too often tragic.
At first the response is stunned.
Then it’s the, “we never saw it coming.”
Maybe that’s because it never came.
Maybe that’s because the it was you.
