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QuestionWhat would you do if you saw a crying woman?
I was walking home from my gym, when I heard a loud scream, that cut through my headphones. I was ready to call the police or ask smb else to help, in case there was a man attacking a woman. Anyway, I turned off my podcast and heard some sobbing after the scream and I looked towards the sound and there was a young woman (19-20) crying on the grass in the trees and bushes along the road. There were no other people around, so the scream was from emotional pain, not physical. I walked towards her and asked what was wrong and if she needed any help. She said everything was alright and that she didn't need my help. I asked her if maybe I need to call someone and if I could do anything else for her. She seemed to be in so much emotional pain. Anyway, she turned my help down and I waited for a bit (in case she would change her mind) and then went home. But I couldn't keep listening to my podcast and I feel like I could've said sth different and that I could've helped her. The woman wasn't drunk and the were no liquor bottles next to her. She was just there, sitting on the grass with a backpack lying near and crying incessantly. I wish I could have done something for her. If I'd had some chocolate I would have offered it to her but I didn't. I am still thinking about her. What would you have done?
When I've been that woman, I haven't been able to even consider accepting help from anyone because I've been so fucking ashamed of being the woman whose pain is so great that she can't even hold it in till she gets home. Because everyone else apparently is able to hold in their pain and yet I can't, so there must be something really wrong with me, and it's so fucking humiliating that I don't want anyone to see me like that, yet there I am crying in public, doing the very thing that's guaranteed to draw attention to me in that humiliating state.
JFC i felt this comment in my soul