In my reading this week, I came across an article that talked about the danger in telling ourselves only one story about ourselves. The article wasn’t specifically about abuse survivors, but it is something I have found to be very true. What he meant was that people get too attached to the stories they tell…
No, what we need are not more registries. We need something much more comprehensive than that, something that will take more work than that, and something that focuses so much more on the children being abused and how to help them than on anything else, especially things that make us feel safer without providing much benefit at all.
Read that again. “Everybody assumes that other people are far more observant than they really are”
Now think about how much time we spend worrying about how we appear to other people, who are not as observant as we think they are.
Yes it’s true, I got another year older over the weekend. 😉 Yes it’s also true that my birthday is a holiday in the US, which is nice. 😉 This year was even more proof that having the internet and social media is pretty cool, because it allows me to have small interactions around birthday…
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