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To the women who are tired of running from their demons in fear, so they turn to look them in the face and smile instead.
my grandmother once told me, “Never dim your shine for someone who thinks they’re going to be burned by your greatness. The right person for you will put on sunglasses and bask in your glow.”
The truth was that it made me feel like a little bit of a sociopath to be able to shut down my feelings about the situation, locking them away after one good cry session. Did that make me a shitty person? I mean, it wasn’t that I didn’t care…It was more that I had been in a fight or flight, life changing moment, and I’d chosen to fight.
It was always the guys with daddy issues that needed the biggest slap of reality. I’d enjoy providing that for him.
I was finding temporary distractions that reduced my emotional pain in the short-term but provided very little in the way of actual healing.
Who needed therapy when you could dissociate and evaluate yourself?
When she finally snapped, I wanted to go up in flames with her. It would be glorious to witness.
