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I am just like you, we are both called on to be brave and unshaken by things deemed small and great alike. We wonder why we struggle with things others don't get bothered by in the slightest way. We fail to come out about things affecting us. "It's not a big deal", "its not worth sharing", we think. "Maybe they just won't understand". Sometimes we are simply ashamed for feeling a certain way or having done certain things. Well I too fit that description, just like you, I am not that strong. Last week or so I finished reading one biography and jumped on to another. Clearly I can't get enough of the ' behind the scenes ' as I'd like to call them. I'm currently reading the biography of Melaine Brown in her book, Brutally honest. She comes out about her heritage, her ordeal of having been in an abusive relationship, the shame she felt causing her not to talk about it, being forced to stay because of circumstances, her relat...

" Be careful with what you ask for because when you pray for rain you have to deal with the mud aswell." -Denzel Washington- Let's get right into it; I was in a conversation not too long ago, I'm starting to think I talk alot, and I was taken down memory lane to a point when I was in boarding school. At this point I was in one of my junior years, grade 9 or 10, I'm not too sure which between the 2 it was. What I do remember vividly was the location and the lesson learnt that is the highlight of this post.Let me elaborate; It was a Saturday night after entertainment. I remember this because I always dreaded the girl's meetings which had to take place so late after the night's program and whose content never quite differed from the last. It was always graced with the same; threats if we broke the set rules, new rules especially on dress code, cleaning portion allocations, that I at another point too enforced, plus we had to be up early to work on our a...