Some months ago, I started keeping a video diary. It started as a way to tell stories about things that were too happy to forget, but very soon I fell into the habit of chronicling when I was confused.
The upshot is that I've spent a good bit of time watching myself deal with agony.
Pushing aside the strange, dissection-like fascination of watching myself in pain, there is one thing I see over and over. What I'm saying and what I'm blatantly, obviously feeling are almost always opposites.
"I'm fine." *snot running down face*
"I'm fine." *shaking in tears*
" I'm alright." *buckles like a folding chair*
Write a scene where someone who is obviously not fine tries to say that they are.
And if you get a chance, I hope you try video-journaling. You see a lot more than you expect to.
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