![]() Attraction is mutable, intangible, and subject to your life experience. Medical transition is a brutal, irreversible, physical process. I really feel like the comparison between transition and attraction is a false equivalence, the T should not be mixed with the LGB as I think it creates confusion and overlap. It’s important for me to note that I really did think I was a man, for five years, but I was just in denial about being a woman. Apart from the belief shift I don’t think there’s significant difference between my trans experience and someone else’s. Most trans people I know are terrifying of detransitioning, when it becomes more known and less horrifying I think we’ll see more. Yes, they still think that HRT and surgery are the answers to gender dysphoria. Some days I feel alive but today I just don’t. I wish my heart would stop beating, but it still goes on, and I’ll keep going on. I wish I could unbreak my mind, my voice, and my body. I wish I knew that the sexes hating each other and themselves was the problem, that trying to change which I was wouldn’t solve anything. I wish I could go back and tell myself “the grass is not greener on the other side” that men have just as much struggle and problem as women, I saw it disguised under a veneer of hate because being a man is hard, just in different ways. I wish I hadn’t been so soft hearted as to be hurt by all the men who who hated women, who I watched dunk on feminism and women’s rights, who I watched laugh at the fact that every month I bled and it hurt. ![]() I wish I could tell myself “you’re beautiful and perfect” exactly as I was. I wish I could go back to 2013 before any of this trans, non binary, gender fluid garbage entered my head. That I could be myself and still be loved. I wish I could have told myself I didn’t need to change for the people I loved. I wish I could have left the people who abused me. I wish I could have left communities where people gave me drugs and encouraged my dysphoria and my self hate. ― Malik Faisal Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.I wish I could go back to March 2018 and tell myself it was okay to not be a man, I wish I could tell myself that it is okay to be female and be a woman even though it’s hard. the tears dry, the smiles fade, but the memories last forever. ~ Lori Robinson Life brings tears, smiles, and memories. Thins end but memories last forever ~Kumar Milan A moment lasts all of a second, but the memory lives on forever. Palacio, Wonder (829 likes Goodreads) 10 Memory Quotes by QuotenSmile The best thing about memories is making them ~ Family by mary corbett. Only instead of being made of stone, they’re made out of the memories people have of you.” They’re like the pyramids that the Egyptians built to honor the pharaohs. The things we do are like monuments that people build to honor heroes after they’ve died. Montgomery, The Story Girl (913 likes Goodreads) “Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.” ― Allyson Braithwaite Condie, First Day (968 likes Goodreads) It’s not always a bad idea to stay behind the window and look out at life instead, is it?” “Isn’t it funny how the memories you cherish before a breakup can become your worst enemies afterwards? The thoughts you loved to think about, the memories you wanted to hold up to the light and view from every angle–it suddenly seems a lot safer to lock them in a box, far from the light of day and throw away the key. ― Alfred Lord Tennyson (1033 likes Goodreads) Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes,Īnd thinking of the days that are no more.” Tears from the depths of some devine despair “Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, ― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire (1057 likes Goodreads) “There are memories that time does not erase… Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable.” ![]() ― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera (1384 likes Goodreads) “He was still too young to know that the heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.” ― John Banville, The Sea (2302 likes Goodreads) “The past beats inside me like a second heart.” “No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.” ― Lois Lowry, The Giver (5206 likes Goodreads) “The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. ![]()
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