The Darkness That Lurks Within
We are masters of our fates. But sometimes, we forget. We only see the choices that were made for us by others – usually by our families – choices that led us to experience physical and emotional scarcity and destitution, that continue to lead us to a lifetime of want.
Yes, unbeknownst to us, our outcomes are forever colored by those memories and those experiences. Most do not want to cross over to the other side, most tenaciously embrace their past. It is the familiar, it is what they know, it is what they learned to live with.
So they sabotage their lives, sometimes in small thrusts of the blade, and sometimes in the grandest of manners.