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To Write or Not to Write?


For years now, I've flirted with writing a fictionalized story of my experiences as a targeted individual. For years I've never felt capable, that the words would not come to me in a way that would touch another human's spirit. That place that connects, that sees beyond words on a page, to reach that place called empathy to achieve understanding. Things have changed, in me. I'm more confident in who I am, and even more sure of who these "perps" are and are not.

I've learned lot about myself over the years, experiencing harassment, mobbing at work, attempts on my life, slander, assaults, through it all, through it all, I can finally say, that I'm a pretty amazing person.
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Ontheroad · M
Write it, 100% write it! If nothing else, you will connect with you through what you write.

Writing, at least for me, does just that. I find myself connecting with who I am, which often leads me to understand myself in new and different ways. It's cathartic.
Qwertyvsme · 46-50, F
@Ontheroad True! Thank you! I have to resist the urge to think of myself as this alien thing that's so different from the rest of humanity.
Ontheroad · M
@Qwertyvsme We all, or at least most of us do that, and one day we realize we are much more alike than different from one another.

Sure, we have our own little peculiarities and quirks, but, I think, even those are often found in others.

Over the years I've come to understand that, packaging aside, we are indeed all brothers and sisters.
Qwertyvsme · 46-50, F
@Ontheroad I agree!