I want to share the following post from a fellow victim. It is - TopicsExpress



          

I want to share the following post from a fellow victim. It is beautiful and so true. "It’s been 8 months since my life changed. Eight months since memories were boxed and stored, and I walked out of a life I had been a part of almost 12 years. How someone can look around and decide what to take, what to leave? So many things held so many memories, but so many things were just that…things. They were items that brought back good memories, and the bad memories. The joy and the hurt and they were left behind. I was leaving this life, to start a new one and I needed to leave behind those “things”. But what I forgot to take with me, was ME. Physically I was gone. But mentally and emotionally I had stayed behind because it was the only life I knew. For the past 8 months I have attempted to “find” that person left behind. I’ve had three steps forward and too many steps back to count. I’ve seen glimpse of me, of who I used to, of who I want to be. But I was still there…in that life. Thinking and feeling, the same way as I had in that life… Until now… I finally realized I would never find that person until I admitted who that person was. Once I admitted it to myself, that person would not be coming back. That person would no longer exist, because that person would be stronger and alive!! I am a victim of Domestic Violence. Physically, emotionally and mentally. The bruises have healed, the scars have faded, but they will always be my reminders. They will always be the reminder of the life I had at one time, that became my emotional prison. They will be the fears that I overcome everyday as I discover who I was, who I am and who I want to be. They will the walls I will push away from when nothing else seems to be able to hold me up in this world. They will be the keys to unlock the restraints on my heart, to live, dream and love again. I am not there yet, but I am not afraid anymore of where I have been, where I am going. And I know I am not alone. — feeling blessed."
Posted on: Wed, 09 Oct 2013 04:17:43 +0000

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