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Trauma is like sea glass. Not in the ‘our trauma makes us beautiful’ way. We’re like the glass and our trauma is the sand and salt and water, it rolls us around and damages us, it leaves us rough and bumpy, not quite as smooth as we used to be. It cracks us and it shapes us. We are beautiful not because of the crashing waves and rocks but in spite of them. We are beautiful because we’re still here, we’re shaped by the waves and how those waves shape us is not what makes us beautiful, the fact that we’re still here, the fact that even if just a tiny fragment of us, we’re still here and that’s beautiful. We survived the waves, we survived the rocks and the sand, and yes it’s changed us, but that change is neutral, it’s neither good or bad, it’s just change. There is nothing we can do to become the smooth glass we once were, but that’s ok, because everyone changes. We are beautiful not because of the waves but in spite of them, in spite of the crush of rocks and rolling of the waves we are beautiful, we are beautiful because we survived the rocks and the waves. The waves might never leave, and we may still chip, but that doesn’t add or subtract from our beauty, the erosion from the water can never be erased or taken back, but that erosion has shaped us. It’s made us who we are, whether that be good or bad or completely neutral, that shaping may never leave, but we can also choose to shape our selves. We can never add back what the waves have taken, but we can add to ourselves in others ways, we can drill a whole and make jewellery, we can surround ourselves with other sea glass. we never get back what the ocean took, and that sucks, but what we become despite our trauma, is beautiful, rising above the waves to become beautiful sea glass. The waves do their best to destroy you, they don’t want to make you beautiful, your beauty, you did that.
Some brain rambles I had last night after reading the latest chapter of Before I Leave You by @hollyhomburg
As a celebration for the 50th chapter of Before I Leave You by @hollyhomburg here are some moodboards I put together that remind me of BILY and the pack members.
TW: bruises, guns, blood, sad quotes, bite marks, needles, hospital imagery, fire, food, bdsm imagery
Before I Leave you
The pack
MC (Y/N)
