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Fading Before Dawn: Wilt, Fade, Dawn, Rise
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“You have been untaught that within you are your answers. Within you may be pain and suffering. There may be sadness, regret, grief, a lost dream, a forgotten hope. There may be a lost child who had their childhood taken away. Perhaps an adult trapped inside that has never gone for it for fear of rejection, being laughed at, or looking like a failure. You’ve kept yourself protected because no one else did.”
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“This is your story and only you can write it. So, take my hand, turn the page, and know that I am here to support and care for you within each word. But there will come a time when you let go, and I will stand back as you begin your journey home.”
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“And there my darkness became my normality, and I lived within a haze of silent mental destruction for years. There have been a couple of occasions that I’ve had to get serious help because I was knocking on suicide´s door, I was fading away. I’d constantly question why I didn’t feel happy and well like other people did? What was I doing so wrong that I’d choose death over life?”
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“My world had slowed to my pace. I found a new un-need for things. I didn’t need to buy, change or replace anything. I liked the things I had. I read fictional books of adventure, love, and crime. It felt like, finally, the ¨be a better version¨ race had finished, so instead of being constantly out of breath, I could breathe and just be me.”
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“Sometimes we’re lost; we’re deep in emotions and we’re drowning in them.”
― Fading Before Dawn: Wilt, Fade, Dawn, Rise
― Fading Before Dawn: Wilt, Fade, Dawn, Rise
“Yet, when I closed the door, my mask would slip off, and you’d see underneath was a very different reality to what I’d just portrayed. You’d see the breath leaving my body, the light in my eyes fading, my smile would go, and you’d see that my very existence was harrowing.”
― Fading Before Dawn: Wilt, Fade, Dawn, Rise
― Fading Before Dawn: Wilt, Fade, Dawn, Rise
“Friends would notice that instead of me being bubbly, cheery and supportive, I was empty—I was shutting down. I no longer had the capacity to contain the mental illness I was living with. I could no longer keep up the lie; I could no longer run two lives side by side and one had to give. But this time, the victor wasn’t going to be the lie, it had to be the truth.”
― Fading Before Dawn: Wilt, Fade, Dawn, Rise
― Fading Before Dawn: Wilt, Fade, Dawn, Rise
“Over the years, I have had many bad ideas, and keeping my mental illness a secret was one of them.”
― Fading Before Dawn: Wilt, Fade, Dawn, Rise
― Fading Before Dawn: Wilt, Fade, Dawn, Rise
“And there my darkness became my normality, and I lived within a haze of silent mental destruction for years. There have been a couple of occasions that I’ve had to get serious help because I was knocking on suicide´s door, I was fading away. I’d constantly question why I didn’t feel happy and well like other people did? What was I doing so wrong that I’d choose death over life?”
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“As I began to connect back to myself and hear my thoughts instead of other people´s, I started seeing the connection we have with nature, and how it shows us every day, in every season, how to live in our own world.
Upon my walks, I watched how Mother Nature changes, how each day she rises—every day, every season, every year, nature rises, time and time again. If she is broken, she will rise. She will break through the concrete to grow her roots if she needs to, but she does it her way and in her time and it´s only other people who break her, she never breaks herself. When I watched this, I knew that I could rise too. I was going to rise up through the years of mental destruction and break through.”
― Fading Before Dawn: Wilt, Fade, Dawn, Rise
Upon my walks, I watched how Mother Nature changes, how each day she rises—every day, every season, every year, nature rises, time and time again. If she is broken, she will rise. She will break through the concrete to grow her roots if she needs to, but she does it her way and in her time and it´s only other people who break her, she never breaks herself. When I watched this, I knew that I could rise too. I was going to rise up through the years of mental destruction and break through.”
― Fading Before Dawn: Wilt, Fade, Dawn, Rise
