Perhaps one of the most common phrases that I've heard over the past 2 years is, "I can't imagine what you're going through." But that isn't true. You, dear soul who has uttered this phrase, can absolutely imagine walking this road. Therein lies the gut punch. Ironically, it's precisely because we can imagine the difficulty, pain, loss and struggle that we say this phrase. I think we should change this knee jerk response phrase to, "I can imagine what you're going through, but I don't want to." Isn't that what is really being said?
