How you look, how you feel. Sunday January 22, 2012

In an especially bleak track on the 1971 album 'Imagine', John Lennon sang 'One thing you can't hide, is when you're crippled inside'.

Yikes.

But is it always true?

While some do go round with their emotions hanging out, I'm sure there are many more who keep things to themselves.

I know I do. In fact sometimes I reckon there must be (at least) two very different Jons.

There's the public one, for whom everything appears fine and dandy, then a private one who occasionally sees things through a glass darkly.

In the past I've been staggered when I've felt at breaking point inside, yet others I've come into contact with have seemed utterly oblivious to my inner turmoil, often launching into some inconsequential story while a voice inside you is screaming - for God's sake, can't you see how wretched I'm feeling?

The trouble is, they can't.

They don't know what's going on in your mind. They have absolutely no idea of what you're going through.

So how do you handle this? Well sometimes I think you just have to let it go. Make your excuses and move on.

But if it's someone who matters to you, now and again it makes sense to open up.

Sometimes, it seems, you could be better at hiding it than you imagine.

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