see how one little word can cause pain? calling you pup is a term of endearment ... meaning "young one" not as in an "old dog" like me ... easy to take offense isn't it when things are lost in translation ...... kinda got your knickers in a twist calling you pup didn't it tho' ..... condescending can run both ways ... truce
I have traveled overseas, Mexico and very extensively in the US, the only states I haven't been in are Alaska and Maine (too damn cold in either of those states). I haven't always been a nurse.
I come form an upper middle class family and until I was 14 years old I was beaten and abused (not sexually, that came later) and left home at 16, I have been homeless and lived in my car or crashed on friends floors, spent two years addicted to heroin and I can tell you equally sad stories just as you can. I tried the suicide route but evidently sucked at it because I am still here.
What I have learned is that life can throw what ever it wants at you and you can either capitulate like a puss or you can crawl up onto your knees and then eventually stand again, hold your head up and say nothing will break me again, I am a reed in the wind I will bend I will not break .. that wind can often be stronger than anticipated and the reed will topple but it can survive .... rolling over and dying is easy, it's living that will test your fortitude.
I am 5' 2' and I have been bullied and had many a person attempt to grind me down ... to those I say bring it on and don't be stingy with the hot peppers .... my advice is remember the past for what it is, the past and that which you were is not who you are now ... it may have help make you who you are but it doesn't have to be something that holds you back or down ...
ok I am done with the biography and the words of wisdom .... but I still maintain that I am far more amusing than you ..... but hey I have had more years to entertain the masses ....
BTW my name is Deb Dodd as in Debra ... so I hide behind no name.
Chat with you later ... pup!
