Jan
6
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LET THE HEALING BEGIN
This bothersome sentiment is usually heard following some large-scale killing or accident that’s been over-reported in the news. Like Columbine, Oklahoma City, or the World Trade Center. It’s often accompanied by another meaningless, overworked cliché, “closure.” People can’t seem to get it through their head that there is never any healing or closure. Ever. There is only a short pause before the next “horrifying” event. People forget there is such a thing as memory, and that when a wound “heals” it leaves a permanent scar that never goes away, but merely fades a little. What really ought to be sad after one of these so-called tragedies is, “Let the scarring begin.” Just trying to be helpful here.
” George Carlin, in When will Jesus bring the pork chops?. He’s in a better place now.
