Shoulder-less

Some times when you keep so many things just absorbed within you either incorrectly or correctly for that might have been the need of time, and then they pile up and one day you crack. You crack and you can't figure out if it's sadness, angst, pity, sympathy, a way to alleviate, self doubt or plainly a derogatory trait to define who you are. But at that time, you the absorber, the rigid, the unbreakable, the don't care, the it's nothing big, the so what and in Hafsa's words "the inflexible" just need to be left alone. You might need a shoulder, only the smart one that can get to you. But those around you just don't have the shrewd shoulder of steel. From their hesitation of offering one to your need for one, the idea of a shoulder and possibility that it could cure your alloy of so many different events compounded as one, dies some where.

The problem with offering a shoulder to a hard-nut is you thinking they are too hard for a shoulder and they wanting not to be known as the foamy ones. The solution is between the two because we all have hard-nuts that we love apart for being ones ourselves. In the former case you need to protect their hardnutty-ness and also let them express their foam. You need to be skilled. You need to be disinterested in to trying to talk it out with a hard-nut. That's crazy hard-nuts don't talk their stuff out, unless they are certain of the fact that you carry no interest in the stuff they offer and it is just a nice conversation. Hard-nut talk their stuff the hard way. There is no need to tell them how foamy they can be. There is only need for silently understanding.

Take it from some one who knows, all humans can be foamy, you need to know the trick. Are you ready to blatantly throw yourself in foam but harder than steel over a hard-nut, over-riding the hardnutty-ness? Is your expression of care strong enough? Is it capable of shushing the hard-nut? Is it capable of pulling the hard-nut's hair and forcing it on your foamy shoulder of steel? The shoulder that is foamy enough to soak the hard-nut's tears and steel enough for a hard-nut to shed tears on it.

Don't wait for a hard-nut. It's hard and it's a nut. It can carry the form and not have a shoulder for as long as it lives. But it should be you who for the betterment of a hard-nut make it easy for them to express their foams and return to their nutty-hard-nessy-ness because you love them. If you can make them understand your shoulder of steel can force them on it, chances are hard-nuts being human will use it once in a while.

And I thought I was THE hard-nut.
Sheesh.