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The sheer intensity of being in constant survival mode for someone you love, especially in such high-stakes moments, doesn't just fade once the crisis is over.
by ErigmolCt 2y ago
The sheer intensity of being in constant survival mode for someone you love, especially in such high-stakes moments, doesn't just fade once the crisis is over. It leaves something behind, or maybe takes something away. I don't know if healing looks like "going back to who we were" or if it's more about figuring out who we are now, with everything we've carried
- bitexploder 2y agoIt is also important to realize that the past does not exist, not really. You get to decide, every day, who you are. It is the simplest and hardest thing.
- ErigmolCt 2y agoI think we do get to decide, but the weight of what we've lived through shapes those decisions in ways we don't always see