James, thank you habibi. I want to be clear though, I’m not being hard on myself. That’s actually the whole point. I’ve already done the work of owning what I did, losing everything because of it, and integrating it. That’s why I can write about it openly. You can’t share what you haven’t digested.
This piece isn’t written from guilt. It’s written from the freedom that comes after guilt has been fully met and moved through. The reason I can name the monster in myself is because I’ve sat with it, faced it, and it no longer runs me.
I wonder if the time has come to talk openly about whatever it is that pains you so much. I can understand the pain of being part of a community that has no compassion for the Other, of participating in military activities that, in retrospect, were horrible, or of hurting the people you love.
But without more details, it's hard to follow the comparison with Epstein.
I agree. The path to healing gets blocked when we use all our energy to condemn each other.
Thank you for sharing, I’m happy it resonated.
Habibi, don’t be so hard on yourself. I don’t know what you did, but I somehow doubt it was as bad as all that.
Yes, we all have a monster inside, and we all do things we wish we hadn’t. Sometimes quite bad things.
But I think it’s important not to overstate. Because that collapses every misdeed into one, and it’s naciera more than it reveals.
You feel terribly guilty about something. Don’t t let it drown everything else out.
My two cents.
James, thank you habibi. I want to be clear though, I’m not being hard on myself. That’s actually the whole point. I’ve already done the work of owning what I did, losing everything because of it, and integrating it. That’s why I can write about it openly. You can’t share what you haven’t digested.
This piece isn’t written from guilt. It’s written from the freedom that comes after guilt has been fully met and moved through. The reason I can name the monster in myself is because I’ve sat with it, faced it, and it no longer runs me.
I wonder if the time has come to talk openly about whatever it is that pains you so much. I can understand the pain of being part of a community that has no compassion for the Other, of participating in military activities that, in retrospect, were horrible, or of hurting the people you love.
But without more details, it's hard to follow the comparison with Epstein.
I have, James. It's all in my other writing. But this piece isn't about my details. It's about yours.
Good work, Congrats 👏
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