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Is There Really Such A Thing As Moving On?

What does it mean to move on?

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Is There Really Such A Thing As Moving On?
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What does it feel like to move on? To truly put your past in the rearview? Is there really such a thing? To get to a point in your life where the past doesn't affect you as much or even at all? When people say that they've moved on, do they really mean it? I believe all people suffering from trauma ask these questions.

Bobby sometimes doesn't feel like he will ever move on, forgiving the people who hurt him. And if so, how long will it take? Two years? Five years? Ten years? Twenty? There's no way to know. If you're suffering from trauma, all you know is what happened. All you know is the regret, shame, and anger for your mistakes as well as others.

So the question is: how do you move on from that? I mean it probably doesn't help that Bobby still has to go home when he's not living at school. Where his whole hometown is a trigger. Everything that ever happened, happened right there. The schools where he was bullied, the house where his dad pushed him around, everything.

But even then, Bobby lives almost two hours away from his hometown and he still thinks about what happened. So what will it take to truly be free of the past? Is there such a thing? There have been people struggling with trauma for decades, was that with the therapy? These are the important questions that I don't know if anybody has the answers to. I really hope someone does though. Bobby does too.

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