And we all have our own afflictions, don’t we? Afflictions that, oftentimes people cannot see, but you feel it, and you know it’s there. Those are the most difficult: you’re put into this position where people must simply take what you say at face value. Not all of our plights and our sufferings we feel in our lives are subjected to others at the surface of our beings. It is so easy to present one kind of face to those around you, and to feel something totally different on the inside.

Once in a while you meet someone who loves you despite your afflictions and your flaws. No, someone who loves you because of your afflictions and your flaws. Because at the end of the day, we are all human, and flaws are the very stuff that make us human, and it is the point at which we connect with and relate to one another.

-Thought Catalog