It is my firm believe that in every circle of friends, there will be someone who is the Aunt Agony of the group. This is often the person whom you know you can count on at all times, the one whom you know will be there to listen to all your problems even if he/she won’t have the answers. I think it’s a beautiful kind of friendship though, when you know that you can confide in them anytime.
I know that I’m Aunt Agony for quite a few of my friends, but if I’m being absolutely honest, I sometimes don’t know whether I can count on them to listen to me when I’m spiralling.
Like I know I can talk to my friends, but my problems are so recurring that sometimes, I just don’t want to annoy them with the same problem over and over again. And I guess, sometimes when you’re always the one comforting others, it gets easy for others to see you as this happy go lucky person and as much as I know that my friends will be here if I need them to, it would be nice to actually hear it from them sometimes too.
A lot of things have happened recently and it all just brought me to one realisation. 当你有一大堆心里话想说，却找不到说的对象，那才是真正的寂寞。 Translated, it means ‘You don’t know loneliness until you have a lot to say, but have no one to say it to.’
This has been a short article, and I don’t really have much more to add to be honest, but I guess I just wanna leave you with this. Check in with your Aunt Agony friends. Sometimes, they just wanna feel loved too.
One Step At A Time 