who would you be if?

Who would you be if something terrible hadn’t happened to you?

Who would you be if you hadn’t experienced that trauma?

Do you ever wonder what you would be like if that terrible thing hadn’t happened in your childhood or even something that happened as an adult?

Do you feel you can picture the person who you would be? Confident. Proud. Holding your head up high. Standing tall.

I know a lot of terrible things can happen to people – have happened to people – but the only way you’re going to get past it – and granted, you’ll never be that same person because you were affected by whatever happened to you – is to be that person whom you thought you might have been.

But how can you begin to really regain yourself, to recapture the person you might have been? Fake it ’til you make it. Stand tall. Live the life of that person. Grow into that person.

Think about who you might have been, who you want to be, and begin to live that life and make it yours.

Reclaim the life that might have been.