Things I am Choosing for Myself
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I'm choosing to talk about my past because I want to recover and be
free. -
I'm choosing to see people as they truly are through the eyes of an
adult and not through the eyes of a child. -
I'm choosing higher education because it is something I have always
wanted for myself. I love to learn new things. -
I'm choosing my particular field of learning because I feel that I have an
aptitude for it, as well as concern and compassion for people going
through certain crises. -
I'm choosing to write about my feelings so I can see them as reality on
paper. They are much less forbidding written in purple ink! -
I'm choosing to be happy today because it's sunny outside and it
makes me feel good. -
I'm choosing to believe The Five Freedoms apply to me too. They are
my rights! -
I'm choosing to believe that the abuses inflicted on me were not my
fault. Children have no choice, but adults do. I do not have to allow
people to abuse me as an adult. People can only do to you what you
let them do. -
I'm choosing who to trust and share my feelings with. I do not have to
speak to a WCG "minister" to appease someone else's feelings. I do not have an obligation to discuss private things with just anyone. I can say, "I don't care to discuss that" and not feel guilty about it. -
I'm choosing not to feel guilty about other people's problems or
choices. I am responsible for my choices only.
By Rochelle - Child Survivor of WCG
NOTE: ESN encourages every child survivor to compose a similar list
about all the things that they are choosing to do to make their life
better.