The difference_02 "Just"

GLEE:

Emma Pillsbury stood up, turned around and walked off in her beautiful wedding gown

Will Schuester (held her hand, trying to stop her): Emma, I just left my wife
Emma (stopped midway, turned to look at Will deep in his eyes): Yes, Will, you just left your wife.

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I always find Lit amazing how it peals off layers and layers of truth and let me see the naked, barren, most honest emotion the writer/speaker tries to protect himself with this clumsy cover. I also find "it" amazing how one word - that full mouth of air breath into life such vast, sky-earth gap between two opposing intentions

Today, the story of just

His "just" demands her understanding, sympathy. His "just" emphasizes on his short-term, current open-raw wound  heartbreak. Look, he only had the strength to break away from an empty marriage. Look, why couldn't she see his effort? Someone his grunt marks a hint of triumphant - I did it, maybe, but maybe not... for you

but hers

But dear, her "just" said it all: "you just left your wife." he "just" while he should, should, should really have done it decades ago. She waited and waited and waited for him to realize his decaying marriage needs to be banished. Her "just" depicts the final drop of tears that trigger the outpour of her bottled up emotion - it wasn't short term, it wasn't a moment of despair... It was years, and years of exhaustion. Yes, now he did, yes now he finally realized it... but "you just left your wife." she said and she knows that was not enough... it was too late and not enough

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"We don't "JUST"" - mark my words, none of us really "just" do something