I got home late last night and turned on the TV just as Oprah said "I am so happy you made a decision to step out of the pain of the past and live in present with all it's possibilities".
This keeps popping up everywhere for me. She was interviewing a boy who 13 years ago had parents that chained him up in the closet for extended periods of time. This had been going on for years. He was six when his older sister ran away and told the police. A case worker went to the house and saw no evidence that anything was wrong.
The police officer that heard the sister's story felt there was too many details for the story not be true. He required the parents to come an pick the daughter up and while they were there talked to the boy. He covered for his dad until the officer sad you dad wants you to tell me everything and he did.
He is an adult now and seemed to be Ok despite the years of abuse. Another woman on the show saw that story 13 years ago as a child and had the courage to tell someone her step father was abusing her. She said his story saved her life.
The message for me was that it is possible to overcome anything. He will be changed forever but he has decided to not let the pain of his past control his life now.
It's interesting to me how people survive their past. For me it's been a process, one that I still work through.
ReplyDeleteI didn't have that kind of childhood. I know that for me though there were moments of emotional pain. I do my best not to compare because my pain was real.
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