to my inner child
I'm sorry you for everything you endured. I'm also sorry for not realizing everything you did endure. I know I had no way of realizing it in the moment but I still feel really bad. Your childhood was traumatic and there were alot of unhealthy ways you could of reacted to that. Instead of taking your trauma and using it as a crutch or an excuse to spiral out, you really tried everything you knew to do to protect yourself and thrive as much as you could as well as you could. I'm grateful for your sacrifice and perseverance. In a way, you sacrificed your childhood so I could make it past that stage of life and have a chance to experience better. Your perseverance was hope personified. My therapist mentioned the few things I assumed to be quirks but were really pieces of my inner child shining through were very profound. She said it seemed like the older I got, I brought a tiny ember of you with me. I loved that analogy. So it makes sense that when the time was right, I wa...