I agree that there is no point in continuing the cycle of hate and blaming. History is, as you say, history, and if you can manage to be forgiving and understanding of those who wronged you, all the better for yourself. Grudges help nobody, much less the person who holds them.

I wasn't abused as a child, but I'm sure my mother could have done a better job at handling her emotions and not taking her frustrations out on me. I naver hated her for it, I think I understood from an early age that it really wasn't her fault, she struggled with life at the time... Even so, seeing the effects of those parts of my childhood in my current personality and the way I approach situations is a constant reminder that each one of our actions can have a deep effect on others, especially if they're children.

Sharing personal experience brings many good things to your life, and it helps others understand what's really going on with topics and news they may know only as numbers and cold facts. Anyone doing it, like you are, is fighting the good fight. Keep fighting it, you have me and many others rooting for you.

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