Violence does more to you than bruise. It breaks your resolve. It reduces your self-worth to a whisper. The unseen consequences of rage are a crushed and broken sense of yourself.
Tag: school
Nominally Not Nurtured
Neglect takes many forms. I can look around and see worse examples of an upbringing. Always someone poorer. Always someone richer. In the same way, there are people more abused and less abused. We don't rank people. Apparently.
Open Journal #53
Listen to this on the podcast Things I Wasn’t Meant to Know, But Did Anyway Two completely unrelated incidents, but not. My family unit was a mother and a father, and three younger sisters. Nothing had ever suggested otherwise. I was going away to boarding school, and the organising took weeks. A uniform to buy. … Continue reading Open Journal #53
Open Journal #22
Listen to this on the podcast I have never had so little sleep. I can’t seem to focus on anything else. It feels all-encompassing. There’s nowhere else I want to be, nothing else I want to think about. Considering how little I have said about it for so long, it feels a bit weird. Takes … Continue reading Open Journal #22