Knocked "Right" Out

Have you been crushed?  Have you had that moment when the "truth" was crushed out of you?  Maybe I should rephrase.  Has life hit you hard enough and long enough to knock the "right" right out of you?  There is something beautiful about people who have been so broken they no longer feel the need to be right.  Maybe it's their eyes wrinkled by pain not age?   Maybe it's their presence seasoned by countless midnights alone, without hope, cursing the night to sleep.  Maybe it's their well-worn honesty that can't help but admit "I got little figured out and a lot to learn."  There's a peace around such people; an ease, a space that let's you breathe.  Some of us have been holding our breath for ages. It ain't easy breathing with all these masks on.