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Originally Posted by Lallymac  I think it's really important 'how' you tell someone. Erin was discrete enough to only say what was needed. Had she told everything she'd seen, she would have panicked the lady. |
I second this whole heartedly. I learned this the hard way. When I was 3 or so, I walked up to my grandmother really upset telling her she had lung cancer and was going to die and I did not want her to die. My mother, of course, shhhhed me. A year later, she had lung cancer and a year after that she was gone. When I was 4, I was in the back seat of the car driving home from LA where my grandmother who was now sick with cancer lived, and I saw a sign for the 5 freeway, and I started crying. And my mother was just like, what is it now? And I told her I did not want my parents getting divorced. They looked at me like I had lost it, but a year later, they were divorced.
I have since learned, just because I know something, doesn’t mean I say anything, doesn’t mean people want to hear it, and doesn’t mean I should be so abrupt. By the time I was 5 or so, I learned that, if I was going to help people, it’s not always best that they knew what I knew, only that I helped, or changed it.
Adrienne
