I once watched an episode of some show on TV. The female protagonist was musing about how an embrace is the most intimate yet distant act--because although physically close, as close as anatomically possible (in terms of surface area), you cannot see the face of the recipient of your embrace. This embrace effect can be observed in many other drama serials in which the male protagonist smiles tiredly at the dumb female who doesn't understand that her partner is tired and still hugs him anyway only to have the male protagonist dropping that smile like lead the moment they are locked in embrace.
Or a female protagonist who embraces a male with a seductive smile before flashing a knife and a murderous smile to stab him in the back, like how all females are.
For it is only normal.
Such events are held to offer some sort of conclusion, and the conclusion is too painful for any normal human being to bear. Don't even lie about it, it affects you (by you, I mean everyone), it shakes you at your very core, it makes you go what's the point what's the point what's the point.
But it's the people bearing the brunt of such events that are commendable. They are definitely strong. Strong enough to force a smile on their tired faces, welcome every guest, and to force back any tears that would inevitably form throughout the event itself.
It's even more heartrending when they fail to reign in their emotions.
