My Soul to Keep

“I’ve noticed that Americans seem to enjoy living in their unhappy pasts,

He derided the thought of most therapy, insisting that people should learn to grow past traumas and rely on inner strength to become reborn.

We only waste energy to have horrible fights with the people we love the most.

: We only waste energy to have horrible fights with the people we love the most.

He derided the thought of most therapy, insisting that people should learn to grow past traumas and rely on inner strength to become reborn.

I’ve noticed that Americans seem to enjoy living in their unhappy pasts

We only waste energy to have horrible fights with the people we love the most

Seemed like I spent whole days cursing the Lord out, just asking why. Raymond was the kind of man who, after you met him, made any other man ruined in your eyes. He was that to me. What did I learn? I learned I could lose even that and still survive. One day I looked in the mirror and thought, hardly believing it, I’m all right. Doesn’t sound like much, does it? I wouldn’t have minded living my whole life without knowing it, but I guess it’s

My mother used to say to me that she collected sorrows and put them in her pocket. Walking around with them that way, by and by, you just learn to carry them all a bit better, to stand up a bit straighter. That’s all life is, on this earth anyway. You’ll see it, too, when your trials come. I wish I could tell you they won’t come, Jessica, but they always do.”