Claudia L. Osborn Quotes

Please don't trivialize my loss by making excuses for my failures or comparing me to someone who never had what I have lost. It compounds my distress and discounts what I once was without even allowing me the opportunity to express my grief. Though entirely unintentional, it adds insult to injury.

So, laugh with me, cry with me, but please don't tell me you know how I feel or you know what it's like because "it's the same" for you. How can it be? You have never lived in my head.

I have learned that experiences that I swear by virtue of their very intensity must be indelibly printed in my memory are actually as fleeting as my dreams.