The most important things are the hardest things to say.
They are the things you get ashamed of, because words make them smaller. When they were in your head they were limitless; but when they come out they seem to be no bigger than normal things. It's hard and painful for you to talk about these things...and then people just look at you strangely. They haven't understood what you've said at all, or why you almost cried while you were saying it.
One more rat in our home. As Silver was feeling very lonely, we decided to get another rat called Blixten and in this way Silver got a cage-mate and they both play with each other all the time.