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It is hard to be told the hard truth: that we’ve made a mistake, that we’ve hurt a person’s feelings, that we’ve wronged someone is some real way. But a harder truth than that, and maybe more unbearable, is to be told that we are good, true, and beautiful. Why is it so hard to hear that we humans are remarkably lovely, and why is it so heavy a name to bear? Ordinary Lives are Remarkable Lives, on this episode of Don’t Hold Me To This.
By Jeremy Reeves and Shaynor NewsomeIt is hard to be told the hard truth: that we’ve made a mistake, that we’ve hurt a person’s feelings, that we’ve wronged someone is some real way. But a harder truth than that, and maybe more unbearable, is to be told that we are good, true, and beautiful. Why is it so hard to hear that we humans are remarkably lovely, and why is it so heavy a name to bear? Ordinary Lives are Remarkable Lives, on this episode of Don’t Hold Me To This.