Words are empty and hollow. They are meaningless. You don't realise this, until words are all you need to hear. That's when you realise that they're just sounds. Background noise.
We trot through life offering up our words of wisdom, to anyone who will listen. "I'm sorry", "It's going to be ok", "I love you". What we really want, is proof of this. We don't want the bottomless promise, that something wonderful is about to appear before us.
Actions speak so much louder.
If you love someone, show them. Shower them with affection. Work through their pain together. Do not tell them that "time will heal the pain", it won't. What will, is the knowledge that someone can be relied upon, at 2am, in the pouring rain, to listen. To hear them.
Don't offer up ideas of what you would do, if you were in that position. You are not. Be sympathetic to their plight.
Ask questions. People are, almost always, afraid to tell you what they're feeling. Ask them exactly that.
Simply to listen & to be kind, is all we need. No one wants to be pitted, or patronised.
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