I don't remember having a secret place as a child. I had an active imagination. I could create stories in my mind for hours. Sometimes they would get written out, but mostly they stayed in my head.
I would often retreat into my head and my stories throughout my life. Most of the time the stories would revolve around a hero of some type.
When I went through my emotional hell in 2010 the only place I wanted to be was in white nothingness.
I would close my eyes and imagine a world of white light. There would be nothing there, just me lying on a floor of white surrounded by white, maybe covered by a blanket of white and I could disappear into the whiteness. The silent white nothingness would swallow me up in it and I was safe. It was quiet, gloriously quiet, and empty.
This last weekend opened up the wounds deep, digging into long covered infections unknown.
Once again I find myself wanting the white, the nothingness, the escape where I can fade into it. The white light where nothing can hide, but I can no longer be seen. A place where silence reigns and my mind quiets.
My secret place, my escape is nothingness. I wonder what that means. A girl who wants to find home so badly, but the go to place she has created in her mind is invisibility, a non-existence.
Linking up with Faith Jam today.
A girl with a story who strives to tell it transparently.
"Not many of you have met me face to face, but that doesn't make any difference. Know that I'm on your side, right alongside you. You're not alone in this." Colossians 2:1 The Message
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I'm so sorry for your pain, Carmen. Thanks so much for your transparency about the disconnected place or nothingness you retreat to. Sometimes "feeling" anything is just too painful, isn't it? Bringing those deep infections in your soul to light is agony. I pray God heals you deeper and deeper.
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