Some thoughts on not playing the part of the victim in life. Shared to you from “Neuroses Undefined” by Genevieve O’Reilly.
I ran across the image below in one of my super random wanderings.

I have been pondering this quote since then, because well, it isn’t really true is it? We don’t get to be the hero every time. We certainly are not victims (fuck I really loathe that word because then we have to be survivors which just feels like another cop out, I’ll explain another day). We do get to choose to a degree what is on our pages, but some of what is there is due to the consequences of our choices.
Definition Victim:
a person who has come to feel helpless and passive in the face of misfortune or ill-treatment ; a person who is tricked or duped.
The only definition I agree with is: a person harmed, injured, or killed as a result of a crime, accident, or other event or action (but where other event…
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