Someone spoke disrespectfully.
They were rude and mean.
More so, they didn’t even realise what they did.
And we felt hurt.
Not just when they said what they said.
But repeatedly after that, thinking of it.
However, they only said it once.
The playing of that audio and video on loop was done by us.
Hurt was not from outside in.
It was a repeated affirmation from inside.
One’s words have the power to hurt us once.
It is the repetition in our head that hurts us over and over again.