11-13-2011, 08:18 PM
cloud999 Wrote:It's a rough, rough world out there. People here on this forum have more difficult histories than I can tell...I'm fortunate. I've had enough trauma and challenge to make me grow and mature, but not enough to shatter me. I have a friend with intense PTSD from Iraq...he told me it was a waste of time that will leave him permanently scarred. Nothing I've done was a waste of time.
I know, or else I wouldn't be here! But I'm not a touchy-feeling person (as you can tell), so I'm usually awkward when people try to hug me...
I feel compelled to say 'something', yet honestly I have no words.
I hear you, I know what you are saying....