The only way you can tell what someone is feeling is to look hard. It's all in the details. The way someone stops smiling the moment you aren't looking. How their answers become shorter, and their laughter a little more forced for every time.
You'll sometimes catch them with a distance look in their eyes, as if they were starting into the big nothingness that surrounds them. Completely gone. Lost. Alone. You might find that they start distancing themselves from you, making excuses, feeding you with their little, covering lies.
"I'm just tired," they'll say. Laughing it off, every single time.
You should pay attention to how they start covering up their bodies, hiding every inch of their skin. Hating every inch of their skin. They won't take your compliments, and, if they do, you'll only get a simple, "thank you," and they'll take it all for lies.
Self hate could easily be mistaken for self irony-although they say it with a smile on their face, keep your eyes open for the empty look that follows. Pay attention. Never look away. Because they are nearly impossible to spot,..unless you're one of them.
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