I graduated college after a severe traumatic brain injury.

Things We Forget

By Gentle Witch

Graduated college with a double major

Former federal government employee

  • What are you passionate about? Women’s rights. Specifically, addressing violence against women.

  • Moment I did not take action but wish I had

    Write about a time when you didn’t take action but wish you had. What would you do differently? Once, I was walking with my aunt through downtown Chicago. I saw…

  • To me, nonexistence can be preferable to existence*

    To me, nonexistence can be preferable to existence*

    I love my parents dearly. But they insists on telling me how to live my life. MY life. As if I owe them. Nonexistence was a million times better than…

  • What could you do more of? I could exercise more. I could remain sober (from marijuana) more. Also, I could spend more time reading instead of letting the internet distract…

  • What makes you nervous? Meeting new people makes me nervous because I’m afraid I will make a bad first impression. The most nervous I ever remember being was around my…

  • Strangers

    Strangers

    Meeting new people makes me nervous because I’m nervous of making a bad first impression.

  • Small steps

    If writing poetry paid more, I could be so rich it would hurt to look at me. I could be living in a high rise in San Francisco, or Amsterdam…

  • Gratitude

    I sit in my giant apartment, grateful for all that I have. There’s two giant windows, one in the bedroom and one in the living room. In the bedroom it…

  • trauma

    Bury bury bury Try to hide it from ourselves In the back of minds, on replay The horrors do not cease

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    How do you unwind after a demanding day? I inhale. Sometimes I drink a 21 oz Heineken too, but that’s only if I REALLY need to unwind.