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Tears

Writer's picture: Justin BurkeJustin Burke



This was brought to my attention the other day by my MOM. And this is what she had said about me. I'm glad we don't fight anymore. You are such an amazing person. I have seen you at your lowest points in your life. Look at you go now. You're helping people do the next right thing in their lives. This almost brought tears to my eyes.


My mom has always been hard on me about how I used to handle my life. I was always in chaos mode not wanting to deal with anything. That would make us fight and not talk for a long time due to my stubbornness. This would just make me use more and more substances cause I didn't feel loved. All she was trying to do was show me to work hard and not take things for granted.


I never would have found this out if I hadn't done a bunch of therapy. Which I also didn't want to do. But never the less I did my therapy. I learned in treatment I was going to have to do a bunch of stuff I didn't want to do. Everything that I didn't want to do saved my life. It taught me how to be vulnerable and that was okay.


Later,

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