Dec. 17th, 2007
I can see it in your eyes…that’s what the always say right? They say they can see pain or anger or sadness in your eyes. I didn’t understand this saying…just like I don’t understand most sayings but this one stuck with me because it became realized for me…I met a young mentally challenged girl today at the mall. She introduced herself as Amanda and that she was very pleased to meet me. I told her my name and we chatted about how crowded the mall was. Her mother then apologized to me and said that she can talk my ears off for hours and pulled her away. In a fleeting last look I saw what was true sadness in her eyes. I saw longing, torture. She was fully aware at that moment who she was, who I was, what everything was and all she wanted was to be normal and to have a normal conversation and it was taken from her, just like everything else.
