You were not a bad child. You were not difficult. You were not a burden. You were not evil.
You were a child.
It was the people around you who had a problem
And it was the people around you who were selfish enough to take their problems out on a child who was too small and helpless to defend themself.
It was the people around you who raised you to hate yourself.
And it's hard to believe when that awful environment is all you've known
But there are people out there who would be horrified at the way you've suffered
And there are people out there who would think you're amazing
It's not your fault you grew up in an abusive household
They're the ones who chose to mistreat you
And they were the ones who convinced you to blame yourself
And you deserve better
I promise you, you deserve better
You learn more from failure than success. Don't let it stop you. Failure builds character.
- Unknown
“If nothing else, one day you can look someone straight in the eyes and say ‘But I lived through it. And it made me who I am today.”
— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You (via meineluft)
“I want to learn from myself, want to be my student, want to get to know myself.”
— Herman Hesse
“She remembered who she was and the game changed.”
— Lalah Deliah
“I found myself in life so suddenly - where I least expected it… And everything around me kept running. Things and men kept running, running - until I too started running like crazy. But it seems I overdid it.”
— Odysseus Elytis, tr. by Athan Anagnostopoulos, from Maria Nephele: A Poem in Two Voices; “The Presence”
Please don't have kids if you are not mentally, physically, financially ready to have them.