The horrors of my childhood are what made me into the person I am today.  As bad as it was, I wouldn’t take back a solitary second of it.  Every bad thing I’ve ever gone through has taught me something that general life could not have.  The biggest thing I’m experiencing right now is that it never stops getting better if you don’t settle.  The more you push, the better it gets.  But that all lies with you and how much you’re able to put into it.  I’m willing to put my entire soul into improving financially, spiritually, mentally… and it’s paying off in ways I never imagined.  I think that if I had grown up in a normal household and gotten a normal education, I would have been perfectly content to take a good job and settle in for the long haul.  I’m glad that didn’t happen.  My writing has helped literally thousands of people, and I could have never done that if I hadn’t lived through the shit, myself.

Sometimes, I wish some of my readers could go back in time and spend a week with me before I made the decision to change.  Then come back to the present and spend a week with me now.  They’d honestly think that they had just stayed with two different people.  Even my friends are shocked by the change.  In a good way.