WHEN YOU HATE YOURSELF FOR REVISITING OLD WOUNDS You revisit old wounds for the same reason birds will come back to the places their nests have been destroyed. The mind walks into the same room because it wants to know how to fix those floorboards, paint the walls, turn this into a more habitable place if it tries something different from the last time. This is survival. This is learning how to live through pain once the skeletons have decided to walk out of the closet and refuse to go back in again. Call it the worst story you have ever owned, a car crash within your bones that you cannot
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