Getting By In Silence

Somewhere in between empathy and friendship is a place called silence.  It's a place of lines drawn in the sand, of boundaries, and of time.  It's a solitary place where self lessons are learned, self awareness grows from pain, and where learning to be alone is an acceptable and respectable.

It is a place that not every one knows of.  It is a place where, too often, people do not realize the necessity of it, or their intrusion in it.  I for one, am grateful that I do. I am grateful for my ability to avoid meddling and fixing.  I am grateful for my ability to hold healing that waits to be wanted.

In between empathy and friendship is silence.  Sometimes silence is just what is needed to get by.