Perpetual Shadows
It’s interesting how a fine morning suddenly transcends into a day of introspection. I had heard people say that a song can either make you forget everything or make you remember everything. Well, here it was a movie. It’s about a high school boy who battles his inability to make normal relations with people and being unable to “fit in”. This, he finds out stems from a childhood trauma of being sexually abused by a near relative. The movie brought back forcefully suppressed memories from my own past. I had been a child raised lovingly and protected by her family; but this beautiful landscape of childhood is marred by a particularly painful memory of being sexually abused as a child. What began as innocent hugs and caresses, turned into something so sinister, that it makes my fingers clench and I break out in cold goosebumps. For the longest time, I held myself somehow responsible for the entire ordeal. Afterall, how would a 7-8 year old draw any sense of what had happened? Th