Memories

"It only took a second and it happened. In just a blink it grabbed me and started dragging me down into my memories. Suddenly I was back at my dad's, hearing all the wounding jokes that would come to mold my personality. A quick blink, and I'm in high school, listening to all the whispers that would come to hurt me. Another blink, I'm back at my first break up. My first loss. All the arguments. All the lies. Late realizations. Mistakes. So, so many mistakes...

I knew it wasn't going to let go. So I let it take me as deep as it needed to. It wouldn't matter in the end. Because I knew I was strong enough to get back up once it was done.

I knew for a fact: Next time I wasn't going to be dragged down as easily."