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JakobVirgil  ·  4646 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Redheads feel a different kind of pain
I have not read it yet. Is the pain of being different?




thenewgreen  ·  4646 days ago  ·  link  ·  
No, it's actually literal.
JakobVirgil  ·  4646 days ago  ·  link  ·  
to bad cuz it must be painful
thenewgreen  ·  4646 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Perhaps, but so must being short, or being the sole minority in a school, or having freckles, wearing glasses at a young age, having braces, having a stutter, a lisp, a hair lip, being overweight etc. There are any number of physical attributes that can cause pain from the way others perceive them. But it's up to us to let that pain stick.

You can't change the feeling but you can change the feeling about the feeling in a second or two.. oh, uh-huh -The Silver Jews "People"

http://hubski.com/pub?id=1906

JakobVirgil  ·  4646 days ago  ·  link  ·  
As long as we don't use that way of thinking to excuse our own cruelties.
thenewgreen  ·  4646 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Absolutely.