08/14/2024
The adage that,â hurt people, hurt peopleâ, is inaccurate.
Hurt people, hurt.
Hurting others is one of many ways someone expresses pain and cries to be seen.
I donât agree with it. But it is what it is.
There are hurt people who protect others, hurt people who curl up in a small corner of their own world and stay to themselves, hurt people victimize themselves before others and seek pity, hurt people who lie, and hurt people who empathize strongly with the wounds of others.
People hurt.
And how they express that hurt, is a choice, of self reflection, will, worth, and experiences that shape the capacity to which they deem necessary to feel safe and have a sense of autonomy over a life that they donât accept responsibility for or power over.
People who hurt others seek power and control they feel was taken from them in some way, managing in doing so, to continue giving that power away freely.
We have power. Scary and daunting as that is.
One chooses to remain in a state that feels safe to live in. Rather than take steps outside the narrative of experiences and live the way they wish. To take responsibility for the way their life moves forward, due to fear of uncomfortable changes inside them selves. Fear of how others will react, and how that will affect them. Thus, continuing to give away that power they seek, to be happy and stand confident in their lives.
In the end, hurt people donât simply hurt people. Itâs an excuse we give others, to justify their actions in hurting others. And in doing so, we instill patterns of belief as a society that itâs ok because they too are hurting.
Like the saying that, boys who hurt a girl have a crush, itâs not the case, itâs a way for adults to cloud over and avoid bullying, because itâs uncomfortable or distracting. Itâs a choice. It perpetuates justifying hurting others as a therapy technique that has to be bearded with for the sake of the one doing violence.
Hurting others is a choice born of ignorance and a lack of accountability from society and self.
And it creates an understanding that it will be tolerated, and is a normal thing to expect from others and accept.
Itâs a lack of self. A lack of will, and a lack of understanding oneself and others.