When Reasons Become Walls
Subscribe Free Your reasons may be legitimate. Your childhood may have been painful. You may have grown up without the love you needed. You may have been abandoned, betrayed, abused, rejected, or wounded by people you trusted. None of that should be dismissed. Your pain is real. Your story matters. Healing does not require pretending that what happened did not hurt. But there is another truth: Your pain and your potential can live within the same person. The question is which one you will allow to write the rest of your story. Every morning, life quietly places that choice before you. You can carry the past as an explanation for where you are, or transform it into wisdom for where you are going. Perhaps the most dangerous excuses are not the ones that are false, but the ones that are completely true. Because when our reasons are valid, we can defend them forever. Others may understand. They may sympathize. They may even agree that we have every reason to remain exact...