The Truth

‘Every story has two sides and reality and truth lies hidden somewhere, maybe not always in the middle. Sometimes some people just assume responsibility more readily than others. I know I do. If you do, and are not made aware of the errors from the other side; or if the other side never admits to being at fault; or at least that they had a role to play, you eventually end up on your knees constantly begging for forgiveness. Then the day comes that you try to get up from the dusty floor where you have lived for so long, and discover that your posture has settled into this submissive, self doubting, self chastising blob of little worth, or even worse, you can’t even get up. People recognize this. They see it, smell it and exploit it. Bit by bit they erode away every bit of your self-worth and respect that you ever possessed. You have become the proverbial punching bag and all you know or feel is that you deserve it.’ 

‘As I said, somewhere there is a real and true reality and this book is by no means aimed at putting anyone in front of a firing squad, or to elicit an opinion of right or wrong. This is my perspective, my reality, and I am the one who has to live with the past, in the present, in order to recapture the pre-eighteen year old one who vanished in order to survive the future.’