What makes you a survivor?

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What makes you a survivor?
Howard and Jimr: Two really great posts.

I agree totally with what has been delt to you.

I also think that the person you were meant to be really is up to you to decide who that might be. I do think that it requires being at peace with yourself, having selfrespect and a sense of selfworth.

Anybody can choose to be whatever they want to be> It is your choice and yours alone.

Some choose the path of eternal hiding, societal anger, total withdrawal and other more serious actions. Yeh the cards that were delt were shitty but it is up to us to change the cards on our own and with the help of others. Our choice.

A good example of Choice is not related to SA but I think shows what one can do. Colin Powell was born to immigrant Jamaican Parents in a very poor section of New York. To say that that cards that were delt were less than perfect would be an understatement. Yet by percerverence and guts and brains and a strong sense of right and wrong, a sense of selfworth and selfrespect this man rose the the pinnicle of power in the US Military and is now their Secretary of State.

Choices and the willingness to put those choices into action. That is all that god gives us that he gives no other creature that I am aware of. It is all up to us.
 
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Can't wait to see the sun...shine. don't mind the rain.......drop. Like it hot or cold..it doesn't matter.

lookin' forward to what the day may bring. bring on the night. i like lookin at the stars and the moon with my glass of asti. a lil smoke 2-the joys of my life.

Doin T 4 20 Plus years...doin something right...still here. a lil easier everyday. less blame.

will survive...will be victorious. keep kickin'.

will love myself...stop blamein' ...4 a crime against me.

mud on the road.

stay alive.


"what makes loneliness an anguish is that i have no one to share my burden"......dag hammarskjold


"razors pain you; rivers are damp; acids stain you; and drugs cause cramp. guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful; YOU MIGHT AS WELL LIVE".............dorthy parker/1926 :cool:
 
Going to start living Today......

Going to stop blameing myself-Hell the crime was his, not mine-so why am I puttin' myself in jail?

Perfection - I'm not-Treat yourself like your best friend-Gonna stop trashin' & crashin' myself.

One day at a time, step by step....mud on the road.

It's Saturday....kick it. :cool:

OF ALL THE INFIRMITIES WE HAVE, THE MOST SAVAGE IS TO DESPISE OUR BEING-------MICHEL EYQUEM de MONTAIGNE
 
i can-t even call myself a survivor then?
 
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Mr. Whiskers,

You are a survivor and a good person. You are definately in a bad and unsafe place now.

The protection of your brothers is foremost in your mind - A very caring person while going through the hell you are going trough.

The fight in you is still there; you are here, you are fighting.

Bill
 
Just felt this is a relevant topic that should be brought back up....

Blacken
 
1997. Ironically the pervert that brought my abuse to a head was first arrested in 1997, that was Gary Glitter of all the times this had to happen it had to happen now. I had just started University as a mature student and I wanted my mind focused but because of the crap that was in my head as far as my abuse was concerned it was the beginning of a terrifying journey into my past. And It was frightening I think I became a survivor when I managed to get out of a house that a "punter" took me to, I remember seeing dried blood on the walls , that was it I ran and I carried on running till mid 1997, when reality decided to coming crashing into my life without the aid of some chemical or other whizzing round my system.

Getting out of that house meant something and it makes me go cold at the memory. Yes I think I became a survivor at that point, nothing could get as bad as that again.....Could it. I think I know the answer to that.

Archnut :cool:
"and all that was left was hope"
 
What makes me a survivor is the fact that they were not able to kill my body OR my spirit. Maybe now they will wish more they had. Ha!

leosha
 
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