This is a little cryptic, for which I apologize. But do you ever meet people who are so...lost and screwed up, I guess...that your heart hurts for them? I guess everyone is a little lost from someone else's perspective, but some people are so raw all the time that I have to wonder if they even see the world through all their glowing red self. Do they wish to exist in that hurt? Do they ever grow out of it? I have to admit that I don't generally feel the desire to fix them---that's their choice, their responsibility---but they pulse so fiercely with their pain, anger, fear that I wish I could show them how I see the world. Or at least smother them in aloe for a while.

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