Have you ever been in a state of pain so intense, it was like a living creature wound tightly around your rib cage and shoulders and neck? Getting into that place requires not just one thing that's wrong, but instead a whole tangled knot of wrongness. It requires wrong things you've done, along with wrong things that have been done to you. It requires both good and bad intentions, doubled and tripled back upon themselves until they're so distorted, you can't see clearly where they began. It requires wrong decisions, but no vision of what other choices you might have made. It requires you to see every inadequacy, every failing, every weakness you poses, magnified to horrific size. It requires bad luck. And then, when you reach this place and look around, you see only blackness. And only possible route to travel: downward, and inward, into more blackness.
- Nancy Werlin
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