Be Gentle

I seen a "hello, how are you" friend today, and he told me his brother had passed away and that today was the scattering of the ashes, and as he told me this his eyes were welling up. I had spoken to him the day before briefly and in those few words we exchanged I had no idea he was going through that

He was so good at putting on a brave face, I would never have known 

We really never know what someone is harbouring, life can be so fragile and yet so demanding you forget sometimes what it's all about