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Emotional Memory Analysis

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This is part of the problem when we see someone under distress. We may likely have no background of someone who to our own perspective might be taken out of context, because we are judging someone else and doing it thought our own lenses. This is natural to do as this is how we see the world, yet we must be able to accept that others are also using their own lenses. We need to be able to step back to keep from expressing an attitude that utters out loud the idea to say someone is taking things out of proportion as we may not understand emotional memory this person may be encountering. It was something I did gain from my revelation with my friend, Dan. Shortly after my experience at the gas station, I explained what had happened with included revealing my childhood memories of being bullied to having been raped. It was his observation that I had not gotten past my having been sexually assaulted as a teenager. I had not completely left the pain of my abuse behind me. I did recognize I had been a bit too emotional at the gas station. Yet, I had not connected my anxiety to past experiences, which were brought through an emotional memory. It occurred to me that this is something, which will always be with me. Although it will be something that will remain with me in a similar way the German measles I had are …show more content…

I am on a dirt path with a single light as my guide, which my God has for me. My journey started with me as an inquisitive boy, where my path was irrevocably changed by years of domination by bullies. My classmates had changed me into a needy teenager with abandonment issues. This primed me for my first job where I was targeted, drugged, and raped. After years of abuse and self-abuse, I would find in the face of hurting strangers whom I was not expecting: me. On this path, I walk so that the light shown for me can shine through me to help me guide those who still walk and fumble in their dark

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