Serenity Or Tyranny - A One's Journey
What does it mean to be a “One,” they would ask as they slowly backed away, acting as if it were contagious.“It’s tyranny,” I would blurt out, feeling the pain from many years chained to the compulsions. It’s like a huge yoke around my neck: a burden capable of choking my very life’s breath if I did not prove to myself, my parents, and the world that there was a reason for my being born—that I was worthwhile.Defenses became skillfully honed as I followed the...
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