You Are Fatally Invited

by Ande Pliego

Maybe fear wasn’t something you fought. Maybe it was something you armed yourself with.

My last advice is not to run from pain, nor the people who have caused it. In fact, I highly recommend you keep a little anti-acknowledgments list, as it were, of people you’d love to thank for making life difficult. For making you who you are, whether by spite, defamation, negligence, or indiscretion. What better way to give life to your words, than drawing on your experience?

Vengeance is a poison you consume alongside your victim; the only antidote is reconciliation.