The Life I Should Have LivedTia

‘You know that expression, ‘Cut your nose off to spite your face?’ I’ve done that so many times, just to be right, just to shield my overly developed sense of social justice. It’s my strength but most definitely my weakness also. I am many people’s shield, the warrior who fights fiercely for the underdog and the oppressed, when in reality I am also the underdog, the marginalized and the oppressed. It all sounds pitiful when you say it out loud. It all sounds pitiful when you simply think it because to think it means you go back in time and you feel it, right here in the present.

I am working so hard these days to be right here in the present; prot