It doesn’t matter if you’re five years old, twenty-five, or fifty. Trauma is trauma, and no matter how much you tell yourself you’re over it, that you’re tougher than the ghosts that haunt you, you will always be weakened in their presence. They are always going to have a hold over your inner psyche. This is why you need people around you, people you can rely on, lean on, and stand up beside you and remind you that you’re not a weak kid anymore.
