Lessons Presented As Challenges
11 comments | June 14th, 2012
(story submitted by Tara, a 21 yo Chestist)
I want to be free. I feel like I'm sitting on a fence. I was born on that fence and realized I was there when I was 4. Now I want to jump off and run away. I just feel like it's time. I want to leave my old ways behind, my weed smoking, wall kicking, screaming, angry, scared self. I want to say "fuck you, thank you" to everything in my life that is a lesson presented as a challenge. Fucking pain in my body, lessons in my archive. I'm going to be fine, I just have to be patient. {end story}
Have you learned any lessons that were first presented as challenges?
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ARL
Posted on June 14, 2012
Not to give up. Never to give in. To know when enough is enough.
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Misa
Posted on June 14, 2012
This is so poignant and relatable. Get off that fence and leave the past where it belongs.
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T
Posted on June 14, 2012
“fuck you, thank you.” Brilliant.
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Weather Girl
Posted on June 15, 2012
Me too. My favorite line.
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Anonymous
Posted on June 15, 2012
Don’t just run away from — run towards.
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MCS
Posted on June 15, 2012
We all carry lessons in our archive (that’s a beautiful way of putting it) and the trick is in learning when to pull which ones out and hat to do with them.
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MCS
Posted on June 15, 2012
“What” to do with them., not hat. Maybe when to pull them out of the hat!
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YES
Posted on June 15, 2012
i love what you said.
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Anonymous
Posted on June 15, 2012
The lesson: Even though you are a good person who is basically kind and nice to people, hard-working and pretty damn good at your job, things will not necessarily turn out the way you thought. And that’s cool. It doesn’t feel that way, especially when you realize you have ZERO control, but it all works out in the end. Different than you had planned, but good in its own way.
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Annie
Posted on June 15, 2012
Amen, sistah!
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N2k
Posted on June 16, 2012
From your fingers…
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