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Many a time, you see, you hear, you experience something, something that makes you sad. Something which you, in every way try to discard from your mind, to attempt to forget but it makes you so sad that it just keeps staying there, unforgettable like a pestilence. Most of the time, you keep it to yourself, trying desperately to deal with it alone all the way putting up a wall of smiles and an 'I-am-alright-don't-worry-ness'.

But ever so rarely, there would be something so painful, so hurting, that you just cannot show a smile anymore. Your emotions attempt to burst forth like a filled balloon, needing release. But you desperately hold it in, and after a while, the smile that you displayed, the I-am-alright-ness starts to wane in the face of your problem and it begins to show. You look sad. Your smile fades to nothing. You just don't know what to do anymore. You show your sadness in bits, still trying to hide most of it in the hope that, like a balloon with a tiny hole, the air slowly releases and everything would be alright again. But every single time, it never happens and you start to trudge back at the end of the day, sad, disappointed and angry with no one else but yourself for being unable, for being incapable of expressing your thoughts, for being defeated by just a simple emotion, and for not being able to deal with the problem. By now you just feel so lost, so weak that you cannot deal with what we usually call 'emo-ness'.

And this is where a good friend comes in. He comes along, not knowing you are sad and cracks a joke with you. That is when you realise that actually, you are not alone. You play along, laugh and that's where you feel better. Soon you throw your problem aside for that period of time, and life seems good. You have fun, you talk, you laugh and soon, time passes quickly when you enjoy it and soon it is time to leave, bringing you back to where you were before.

Nicholas is so childish.