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

Impact

It may be your decision to live fast and die young, but a lot of people love you very much and would be negatively impacted by your early demise.
Claire

I would love to have dinner with Claire. Her poetry book is not published yet, so she is not well known, but she is a wonderful conversationalist and a great…
Charles Dickens

I would love to have dinner with Charles Dickens. I would ask him what inspired him to write Oliver Twist. He had to have some first-hand experience with trauma to…
Charlotte Brontë

I would love to have dinner with Charlotte Brontë, who published Jane Eyre in 1847. I would ask her about tenacity, and what is the best way to acquire and…
Sarah J. Maas

If I could have dinner with one author, it would be Sarah J. Maas. Sarah J. Maas is the author of the “A Court of” series, with heroes Feyre and…
Generous

Sulaiman bin Abdul Aziz Al Rejhi, whom I had never heard of before today, is an incredibly generous philanthropist. His lifetime donations exceed his net worth by 966%. He is…
Six Flags

Once when I was at six flags with my boyfriend, there was a miscommunication, and we got separated. I thought he had ditched me on purpose, so I sat down…
Landlord?

A time when a complete stranger restored my faith in people was when my new landlord didn’t require employment documentation to rent my place. Since I am paid in cash,…
Growth

Keep doing exactly what you are doing right now. Everything will work out. This is two sentences, but the gist tracks. If your future self could send you one sentence,…
DBT

I wish schools actually taught DBT concepts and skills. This would aid greatly in preventing miscommunications and domestic violence. What do you wish they taught in schools? Comment to let…