To smile

To heal instead of lashing out when you are hurt. You knew it took time, but to smile when things get hard is knowing you are in a better place. When you tell the ones you trust what that individual did to you. That they can’t be trusted because they broke your confidentiality to the whole store. It’s not out of revenge or anger, you don’t want anyone else to go through what you went through. You are at peace and accept your mistakes and the lessons that were taught during that painful time. Even though it was a year ago, it still hits you like it was yesterday when it happened, but you know you survived.