(You Caught Me) Smilin'

@SuperstarMouse well..think about it like this. You think a drug addict doesn't know what people think about them? they know, on top of the pain and everything else, that the things they do just to try to live without emotional anguish makes people look down on them, see them as less than human, as just a junky. we see it every day.

@SuperstarMouse well..think about it like this. You think a drug addict doesn't know what people think about them? they know, on top of the pain and everything else, that the things they do just to try to live without emotional anguish makes people look down on them, see them as less than human, as just a junky. we see it every day.

So that person has a pretty familiar relationshp with suffering. When he has nothing to smile about and you know his situation and you know it isn't anything good AT ALL...but you catch him in moment where...

So that person has a pretty familiar relationshp with suffering. When he has nothing to smile about and you know his situation and you know it isn't anything good AT ALL...but you catch him in moment where he can smile? Genuinely just detaching from the weight of the hostile world and just be a human being for a single second with a moment of joy? It can be a moving and beautiful thing.

It almost doesn't matter where the joy is coming from, you are just glad that person can have it, if only for a moment. Catching them with their guard down, the frown is gone, maybe even the pain for a minute or two, while he's laughing.