Self-Inflicted Wounds

Weekly Prompt: The Darkness We Cause Ourselves

As if the world isn’t hard enough, we make things even harder on ourselves. Part of the human experience is making choices that either serve us in becoming better, or keep us from reaching a higher level of living. Nobody is immune to making bad choices - nobody. But what makes self-inflicted struggle harder to overcome than hardships thrown at us, is the shame involved.

Shame compounds the struggle.