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What does it mean?
The ease with which someone is remembered often hides the immense suffering they endured.
In plain terms
A person who seems light and simple likely suffered greatly.
What can you take from it?
Suffering is often invisible in how we remember people.

Where it applies

  • funerals
  • biographies
  • grief counseling

Putting it to work

  • honor hidden struggles
  • remember pain
  • comfort mourners

Questions to consider

  • What pain hides behind simplicity?
  • How do we honor struggle?

Another view

Not everyone who seems light has suffered.

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