Girl, Fix Your Crown

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You Can’t Heal What You Keep Pretending Doesn’t Hurt.

You’ve been hurt. And you’ve also been taught to pretend nothing can hurt you. That person did what they did and you’re fine. You walked away, or you didn’t. But you don’t admit, even to yourself, that it hurt you.

The problem with not admitting it is that you can’t heal what you won’t admit hurt. You can’t go see a doctor for a wound if you’re pretending there is no wound. Hell, you can’t even clean it with peroxide while you’re pretending it’s not real.

You know what happens then? It festers and gets infected. Before long, the pain of it is making it hard to focus, you might be walking with a limp, and you might have a fever. Your loved ones will ask what’s wrong, and you just keep saying “Nothing. I’m fine.”

To someone watching,

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