If you’re a victim of something traumatizing, it must be so hard to be told to “stop playing the victim.” You’ve now experienced gaslighting on top of the original pain. You see the fraudulence in people; the wolves all about you sickeningly masquerading in sheep’s clothing. … If in any pain like this, please remember nobody is better than you. You are inferior to no one. If someone is in a place of true love, there is no judgment in real love, so you will never, ever be made to feel lesser. Remember you didn’t invent anger, so you don’t have to take responsibility for its existence. It existed before you. It will exist after you. But, remember you *deserve* to feel relief. You deserve to feel childlike joy and silliness. You deserve to feel free of your past, in order to make room for all the love that wants to fill that old dark space with light and frolicking. It’s easy to look special when all is coming so easily. But, the real work – that real carving out of your deepest insides – all that which is the stuff of Growth – it comes with pain. The ability for compassion and deep empathy for others comes from your own feeling of that pain. You get it. You know it. You’ve lived it. And, that makes you intriguing, magical, mysterious, attractive, … a well of water so deep the bottom cannot be navigated, and with eyes that usually mesmerize the one drawn to you. There is no judgment in love. No better than, no lesser than. So, you don’t have to worry where you rank, because there is no ranking. The only desire is that you feel relief from the pain, the anger, the torture. That you feel a gentle hand carrying you through when on those days when it is just too much. You *are* loved, even by strangers. Just a little prayer you feel more of that. 

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