Alternative selves

what doesn't kill you doesn't make you stronger; it makes you vulnerable, woundable and scarred it wipes off parts of yourself you wish you could keep but they are gone forever, irreplaceable. what doesn't kill you doesn't make you stronger; and i i could have been better off without going through hell i would have been another self and shape my way through life without all the hurt from which healing was never guaranteed. what doesn't kill you doesn't make you stronger; i am not who i am thanks to the pain i was in but despite of it. i stopped believing in purgatories - life shouldn't be an infern nor a heaven. we should all be allowed to progress in a balanced way working on our own passages towards alternative selves.