Riley writes, "I am a memory keeper. And so I look back at the moments wondering why things turned out how they did? how these experiences have changed how I have interacted going forward and how incredibly frustrating it is to realise that while fighting, avoiding and healing from the demons of a generation before mine, that I, at very least, expect to accrue my own."
"So many survivors of trauma avoid speaking about their experiences because it feels as though the emotional or physical pain can never be understood, also acknowledging that it feels like you are giving the perpetrators even more power. So I walk around the world seeing mantras that repeat in my mind, trying to summon the moment in which you did not speak. Wrong way, Do not enter. Go back. Go back and this pain and these trespasses travel with us."
Collection
[
|
...
]