I Saw Him on the Street… and It Hurt Me Too
🌿 The moment someone else's pain became mine
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| Foto de Martino Pietropoli en Unsplash |
Sometimes, what hurts is not what we live through,
but what we witness.
It wasn’t my body bleeding.
It wasn’t my legs trembling.
But something inside me cracked open.
Yesterday, as I walked down an ordinary street, I saw a boy.
He had been beaten.
Blood ran slowly from his nose,
and his legs were covered in inflamed sores, raw and red,
as if his skin were crying for help.
I don’t know what happened.
Maybe he got into trouble.
Maybe it was a fight.
Or maybe he was just in the wrong place at the worst time.
But what stayed with me wasn't the scene—
it was the ache in my chest,
a silent, searing sting that I couldn’t name.
🕊️ Seeing… and not walking away
There are moments when life won’t let us look away.
Someone else’s wounded body becomes a mirror,
distorted,
reflecting all the times we were broken too.
I didn’t ask him anything.
I couldn’t.
I just looked.
And in that glance, something unexpected rose inside me—
not pity,
but something more primal.
A tenderness I didn’t ask for,
but that demanded to be felt.
🩸 How many times have we been that broken body?
Maybe he’s somewhere else by now.
Maybe he doesn’t even remember that someone saw him with softness for a second.
But I can’t forget him.
Because his pain reminded me of mine—
and of the invisible wounds so many carry through the world…
while no one stops to see.
It made me wonder:
How often do we judge before we truly listen?
How often have we been the ones bleeding in silence…
while life just keeps moving?
🌧️ One more crack… that makes me human
I don’t know his name.
I don’t know his story.
But his image stayed with me.
Because that boy—
trembling, bleeding, exposed—
reminded me I haven’t turned to stone.
That I can still feel, still ache, still care.
And maybe that,
in a world where cruelty is normalized and coldness is worn like armor,
is a radical act of being alive.
🌱 Final reflection
Today, I don’t have advice.
Just this open wound, this vivid memory.
And a question I leave here for you:
How many have we seen bleed…
without truly looking?

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