People, Places and Perceptions

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Everyone has an opinion about something. Some chose to voice it some choice to keep it to themselves. 

It is funny how when some people are talking to me about my illness I slowly realise that they are actually not talking to me about me. But rather they are talking to themselves about me. About how it could be them; how it could be worse; what mechanisms do they have to cope with a situation like that; what they are doing right now in their lives to prevent something like this; things they should be doing in their lives to prevent something like this. 

Beneath all of it I feel they also have the fear about themselves that if it could happen to someone living a normal life, it could happen to them too. 

But then again I guess all our conversations are like that. About things we know and about things we don't know, and how to make sense of it all. 

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