A lot of times we tend to not realize the positions we put ourselves in when we make decisions during our lowest and most vulnerable states. We don't see to what extend we are devaluing ourselves. We don't recognize that in doing so we show others it's okay to devalue us as well. It's so hard to break out of that cycle sometimes because the feeling can last longer than we anticipate and our actions become so habitual that it's so hard for us to break the cycle. The cycle has not only become our comfort zone, but the norm we have created for ourselves.
Break the Chains... Be Free...
I have spent three days trying to write about my father. Why him? Well, because I am working on becoming a better me, loving myself more, and my deeply rooted issues with my father have everything to do with that. I cannot move forward until I deal with it, with him. I cannot learn to breathe and love and live again until I have given life to truth and by speaking it and death to pain by forgiving. Until I do so I will forever be a prisoner of my past hurt, watching people live and love through these prison bars. I don't believe fathers really understand the affect their presence, or lack thereof, has on their children. More importantly I don't believe they know the effect it has on their daughters. Some of a father's main goals as a parent are: being an example of how a man is supposed to carry himself, showing what a healthy relationship between a man and a woman looks like, and ultimately showing his daughter the love she deserves, should expect, and demand from a...
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