Every Ugly Word

by Aimee L. Salter

it isn’t what happens to you in your life that destroys you. It’s what you do about it. I’d decided to keep fighting, keep searching for answers. Because as long as I did that, there would always be a chance my holes would heal. I could have hope. My gaps only became inevitable when I stopped believing they could be filled. Because that’s when I’d sit back and let life pile on the crap.