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Scott Berkun's avatar

Your essay reminded me that hard truths are hard for most adults to talk about! Maybe we're even worse than kids - they at least ask the questions and challenge assumptions even if they are upset about the answers. I think sometimes that as we grow older we get better and better at avoiding the hard things in many ways, so good at it that we don't even notice it. My therapist asked me recently: what are you afraid to feel? Which seemed like such a strange question at first but the more I thought about it the more interesting it became.

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🌈⃤Ani's avatar

Thank you for this! I'm not looking forward to difficult questions at all. Mine are 2.5 and 6 months and they're blissfully ignorant of police brutality, antisemitism, and inequality. Really not looking forward to explaining food banks.

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