You are beautiful

Sometimes life is going so good, you get that oh-so-long-deserved promotion; the guy you have been eyeballing (in secret) finally makes a move and asks you out Friday night, etc...  You are relishing in the glow of your newly gotten whatever.  Then it hits.  Every planet crashes down upon you.  You were made privy to some unfortunate turn of events and someone you know is in a lot of hurt.  You are in pain for this person, as you do not know how to help them.  You are there for them, you offer a shoulder and some words of advice, and then you...cry.  Stay up at all hours of night with nothing but ridiculous ideas on what action to take.  Then...cry some more.  There is nothing else.  There is nothing you can do for them, well besides what you have done.  I have heard SO many times that being there is enough, but when it is someone who is so close to you, you cannot help but feel helpless.  Useless.  Feeling their pain cuts you like a knife.  Watching their sorrow is honestly worse than being in sorrow, IMHO.  It feels like watching someone you love drown in a lake of sludge, and you are shackled to a tree by thirty pound chains on the shore.  Theres gotta be something I can do.  You try to cheer them up and show them the lighter side of the situation- "At least you don't have to remember to take those retched birth control pills anymore."  Then you try to get mad and show them the reasoning behind-"He will get his!  I'll bet he has gonorrhea within a year-the slut!"  but nothing , not even scientific facts "one in FOUR marriages will disassemble within the first two years if that union was forged while one partner was cheating on their girlfriend."  But in the end, you just cry, and lose a little of yourself.  'Cuz no matter what, you forge a kind of bond with those who you are especially close with, and when they are devastated, you yourself physically feel it.   I am sorry for your hurt.  I am sorry for your pain.  I wish I could take it away-send it to the darkest reaches of the universe where a black hole will consume it and the troll within will eat it for dinner after pounding it with a mallet.  i wish.  You don't deserve this.  You are beautiful, wonderful, exciting, creative, exponential, and most of all-you are a human.  A loving, peaceful person.  I love you and I will wish and pray...
And I will ALWAYS be here...