Just Keep Living

I remember the feelings I had when I was younger and experienced heartbreak, embarrassment, or shame, and thought surely my world is about to end or that I would never be able to recover. I felt the pain of what I experienced was so great that it would paralyze me, and I would no longer have the desire to do the things I did in the way that I did them ever again. I remember reliving everything in my head, over and over, seeing people laugh or taunt me. I could even hear people’s commentary, and that made it worse. When my grandmother was alive, we would often have conversations, and she would...