I want to stay with him, comfort him, and mend his wounds. He is so pained, so lonely, and so frightened
I’ve known him for years. However, I’d never seen him in such emotional turmoil.
I asked him what was wrong.
“It gets harder and harder each year, and I feel completely inadequate for the task before me.”
We’re the same age, have shared so much of our lives, and I was unprepared for his candid revelations about his feelings of inadequacy.
He’d never seemed shy or timid. To me, he’d always had an air of confidence. But I learned a long time ago that appearances, more often than not, are deceiving. Often, the most seemingly self-confident individuals are covering up emotional turbulence and are filled with doubts. And now he, too, had joined the ranks of the fragile and emotionally challenged.
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