If you could be someone else for a day, who would you be, and why?
I have been thinking about this. Who would I want to be? As a child I wanted to be The Queen, a Princess, Cinderella, a ballet dancer… But now, I want to be myself, every moment of every day. Finding myself as a woman, havng surivived the atrocities of gender based abuse and violence, sexual violence and family violence. I just want to be me.
However that means me as aside from the numerous roles assumed through my life so far. Sometimes I look back and want to be a mum again.The funniest simplest things. Sitting in the rocking chair breastfeeding. Playing peekabo, picnics, crabbing, bike rides. snoozing on sofa watching TV. But those days are gone. So now I only want to be me. the survivor, the woman the warrior.
The Question for me is why on earth would I want to be anyone else. Even in the darkest moments, I never wanted to be someone else, just somewhere else!