Dear Pain:

Well, rocks can’t put two words together and you write well, you really do, so there (“I am dumb as rocks”).

You wrote: “I don’t know anything”. That would have been good compared to the situation you are in, which is, you believe you know things that are not true, for example, that you are “dumb as rocks”. If you didn’t know, you would have been open to consider that maybe you are pretty smart!

“In life, you have to be brutal and uncaring just like the forces of nature to get what you want”- a hurricane will cause a lot of damage in a short time, yes. But water flowing gently over rocks, over time, with persistence, water shapes rocks. You can be powerful too, being gentle with yourself and persistent.

It is so very wrong that your father calls you dumb, so very wrong. No  wonder you believe that about yourself, if he called you that from an early age… a child automatically believes what his father says.

anita