Sublime

But you can choose how you live now. My precious, you can choose to be free.

used to ask, Why me? Why did I survive? I have learned to ask a different question: Why not me? Standing on a stage surrounded by the next generation of freedom fighters, I could see in my conscious awareness something that is often elusive, often invisible: that to run away from the past or to fight against our present pain is to imprison

painful experiences aren’t a liability—they’re a gift. They give us perspective and meaning, an opportunity to find our unique purpose and our strength.

These are lost children looking for an identity, looking for a way to feel strength, to feel like they matter.

Maybe to heal isn’t to erase the scar, or even to make the scar. To heal is to cherish the wound.