A Bit of Extra Fun

Generational trauma is the followed footsteps we can never break free from, no matter how hard we try to fight that inevitable fact. Growing up, we have said the words, "I do not want to become like my mother/father." Then one day, in a blink, we come to the realization not just how much we are like our parents, but that we are our parents.

I sit across from my mother, that blink of realization only hours before. She's going on and on about lord knows what, and all I can try to do is to break those followed footsteps one last time, but like every other time I have tried, I will fail. When will the time come that I simply embrace the fact that I am now coming to accept.