Dailyprompt-1917

💫Daily Prompt  Word Press

Write about a time when you didn’t take action but wish you had. What would you do differently?

There was a time I stayed silent longer than I should have.

I didn’t stand up for myself when it came to my mother’s alcoholism.

Not because I didn’t feel it—but because I had lived inside it for so long that it felt… normal.

Something to endure. Something to survive.

But silence has a cost.

It slowly takes pieces of you—your voice, your boundaries, your sense of what is okay.

Looking back,I wish I had spoken sooner.

I wish I had seen earlier that I didn’t have to accept what was hurting me.

That I had a choice.

But maybe…I needed that time to understand it fully.

Because when I finally did act—

I didn’t just speak.I changed everything.

I broke the cycle.

I chose something different for myself and for my children.

So what would I do differently?

I would trust myself sooner. Listen to that inner voice that knew it wasn’t right.

But I also know this—

even if it took time…I still found my way out.

And sometimes,that is the most important part of all.

— Maggie
The Afterlove Voice 💫

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