"Communicating was the indispensable key to resistance. Without that, it was
hard to derive strength from others. Absent the counsel of fellow prisoners, I
would begin to doubt my own judgment, whether I was resisting effectively and
appropriately. If I was in communication only for a brief moment once a day, I
would be okay. When I was deprived of any contact with my comrades, I was in
serious trouble ... my isolation was awful, worse than the beatings I had been
sentenced to for communicating."
No one survives on their own, and no one thrives alone either. Yes, you might
feel an excruciating loneliness after one of life's hurtful blows. But we are
simply not built to survive solo. Isolation will kill us, not protect us. We
humans are social animals made for community. We must find peers, friends and
family to break the isolation and loneliness that comes in the aftermath of
crisis. In our hour of need, we may even depend on the grace of mere
acquaintances or total strangers. We have to let the people in our lives into
our lives.
Together, we are not alone. Together, we can be more. Together,
surviving happens.
No one is better equipped to change the world than those scarred by what's wrong
with it.
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Share the 5
steps and give the gift of healing.