Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
At one time in my life, from the time I was seven until I was about 13, I didn’t speak. I only spoke to my brother. The reason I didn’t speak: I had been molested, and I told the name of the molester to my brother who told it to the family.
The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.
Let’s suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about what to tell yourself about the abuse.
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