Old 11-23-2008, 07:19 AM
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I see the truth in that statement, m.c., but personally? I don't find it useful. Not only is it a generalization, it reinforces the thought that we are victims and we can't leave our captors.

The difference between me (as his 'hostage') and a real hostage is that I could walk away any time. No guns trained on me, no locked cells.

But I FELT like I couldn't, so really, I was a hostage to myself, to my own screwed-up thinking that said I should stay and take this really horrible treatment. When I finally walked out of that jail, I blinked up at the sunlight and thought, "You mean I could've left any time? Jeez, who knew?"
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