Is really unfair
Stay down
Stay in one’s place
Keep the status quo
Do not rock the boat!
there’s a desire to survive,
wanting to rebuild family is strong ~ a desperate need to live in safety, another chance to grasp health ~ embracing recovery from active addiction brings balance?
may be unfair to you or to me
~ rocking our boats ~
but the determination to go against
entrenched stigma is more than fair.
It is absolutely daring.
“Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others…
do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.”
~ (Journal entry, 14 October 1922)
~ Katherine Mansfield, Journal of Katherine Mansfield
Author's note: Edited January 27, 2024
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