The most important things...

For the past few nights, me was immersed in a Stephen King book "Different Seasons".
The book has four novellas, one for each season of a year - although the concept of four seasons does not very much apply to countries in the Indian subcontinent, I see it very much in place as nature's modus operandi in the West.

Okay, back to the book.
Each novella in the book is given two titles, one which reminds you of a season and another the actual title. Well, I was reading this story aptly two-titled as "The Body" (the actual title) and "FALL from innocence" (Fall being the season where leaves fall - Ilai Udhir Kaalam, aha sweet Thamizh!).

The novella is about a bunch of twelve-year olds who go on a hike in search of a kid's mangled body lying somewhere near the railroad tracks (apparently a train had knocked him down dead) of King's imaginary Castle Rock town in the Pine Tree State (Maine, USA - King hails from there. So his stories mostly happen up there). Pretty awful stuff. But King is an author who dwells more on the darker side of the lives & minds of people.

The beginning of the story is prefixed with an excerpt from itself.
Quote
"The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them - words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out.

But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away.

And you may make revalations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it.

That's the worst, I think.
When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller, but for want of an understanding ear. "
End Quote

Well, me just wondered at how true it is & how simply King put it in words!