What makes us vital--all that brawling, longing, laughing, crying, hurting and loving--all that bitching and moaning and mucking around most of us do on a daily basis-is bad for a person's golf game.
Senator Muskie dropped out of contention for the Presidency when he cried, hurt by attacks against his wife.
To know that he could be weak, that he was crying, it hurt the most to feel like I couldn't help him".
And yet, in those first few weeks home, the silent cries hurt worse than anything.
All the crying, the hurting you have imposed on me, I can take it.
Oakland Raiders quarterback Derek Carr took to Twitter on Tuesday morning to proclaim he wasn't crying after hurting his arm against Seattle, despite the video clip all over social media that some think suggests otherwise.
"Itaiyo, itaiyo!" he cried ("It hurts, it hurts!").
"It made me cry, it hurt so much".
She laughed, she cried, she hurt, but it seems like a legend that never happened.
There is an admirable mission at play: reassuring those who cry, who hurt, who need sustenance.
