
2. UNDERSTOOD
2 {UNDERSTOOD}
“Please understand and love me” ~ Ernest Hemingway
One of our deepest longings, deeper than we even perhaps recognize day-to-day, is the desire to have other people understand aspects of how we are feeling. We don’t want others necessarily to agree with all our feelings, but what we crave is that they at least validate them. This is why people will feel hurt when they do not feel they are being understood or that someone doesn’t care to find out. Ernest Hemingway correctly connected the dots that an extension of love is the motivation to understand where someone else is coming…
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