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Traumas
Daily Meditation 936–9/23/2024
We, unfortunately, are forced to live in a world where myriad bad things always happen to us or around us.
We’re diagnosed with cancer.
One of our parents is on their death bed.
The guy you thought was “just a friend” decided to rape you.
After years of trying, you miscarry after months of enjoying pregnancy.
And alongside all these horrors — some afflicted upon us by other people, some upon us by our own hands, and some by just bad luck — come traumas.
Traumas are not bad. We all have them, and we all have varying levels of “tolerance” to them. Traumas are just part of life.
For one person, being molested at 10 will permanently and horrifically scar them for decades if not their entire life.
For another, it will be something they “just” forget and move on from.
It’s like the Tale of the Twin Brothers I’ve cited many times (admittedly, I’ve written so many DMs — 936 — that I spent 15+ minutes trying to find the last time I used it!).
Two brothers were molested, beaten, and raped by their seriously alcoholic father. They watched their mom be abused and raped right in front of them.
