ayoamadu

Have you had a bad experience that taught you a conclusion instead of a lesson?

Did a single moment
become a lifetime rule?

One person betrayed you; so now everyone is untrustworthy.
One failure broke you;
so now you believe you’re incapable.
One closed door disappointed you; so now you call every opportunity a trap.

But what does that really say about them?
And what does it quietly confess about you?

Overgeneralization is not wisdom.
It’s fear wearing the mask of discernment.
It’s pain pretending to be protection.

When one experience becomes your doctrine,
you are no longer responding to reality, you are reacting to a memory.

You stop seeing people as individuals and start judging them as categories.
You stop evaluating situations as they are and start filtering them through wounds.

And in doing so, you don’t just misjudge others; you imprison yourself.

Healing doesn’t erase the past, but it refuses to let the past decide the future.

The question isn’t
“What happened to you?”
The deeper question is
“Who did you become because of it?”

And even deeper still;
Who are you willing to become once you stop letting one story speak for them all?