Look How Far You Have Come

Look How Far You Have Come

Many of you have been told that you are worthless and that you will never amount to anything,  or you may have been treated that way. You may feel that you will never accomplish anything,  I am now going to show you that these things are all lies. 

I am going to tell you what you have accomplished.   You may have been brought up with bad parents who taught you abuse or you may have been neglected.  You may have been abused by a spouse.  You survived that!  That itself is a major accomplishment.   You have acknowledged what happened to you,  that is a major accomplishment.  You would not be on this page or in this group if you were still in denial. 

Most of you know that the abuse that happened to you is wrong,  that is a major accomplishment.  You are making a choice not to abuse other people.  You are making steps to become a better parent for your children,  from where you came from,  that itself is a great accomplishment. 

You people are making great steps forward.  Think about the compassion you have for people because you don't want someone else to get hurt like you have,  that compassion has grown you as a person.  You have developed a love and kindness toward people.  Anytime you show love and kindness toward someone,  you changed a life, think of that as an accomplishment.

You don't know how many lives will be changed or even saved because of people like you.  Keep this in mind. 

When you see the scars on your body from abuse,  remind yourself what you have accomplished and when you see lives changed, remind yourself that those scars changed people's lives.  Remind yourself that lives can be saved because of your scars.  Don't be ashamed of them, it is a symbol of the great accomplishments you have made and the accomplishments you will make in the future. 

You are more important than you think.  You are more significant than you think and you have accomplished much more than you think.

Rodney Calmes