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Monday, March 27, 2017. I was just wondering what the core difference between “injury” and “wounded” might be.
INJURY – word origins –
Middle English injurie, from Anglo-French, Latin injuria, from injurus injurious, from in- + jur-, jus right — more at just
First Known Use: 14th century
JUST – word origins –
Middle English, from Anglo-French & Latin; Anglo-French juste, from Latin justus, from jus right, law; akin to Sanskrit yos welfare
First Known Use: 14th century
WOUND – word origins —
Middle English, from Old English wund; akin to Old High German wunta wound
First Known Use: before 12th century
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As I have written on this blog before, a major shift occurred for me at the instant I recognized the extent of the abuse I suffered during my first 18 years of life in terms of CRIMES.
I just typed “criminal” into the search window at the top of the blog thinking perhaps the post I wrote that day would show up. Perhaps it did. However, for all the posts that DO appear with that search, I do not specifically see the post I am thinking about right now.
I do know that on that day it hit me that if Mother did or attempted to do even ONE time to one of my neighbor children where I was living what she did thousands upon thousands times to me, police would have been called and off Mother would have been whisked!
Following this epiphany I just figured it out, ONLY for an approximate number of physical attacks – not counting any other aspect of the many other abuses she was allowed to do to me – her minimum jail sentence would have been 15,000 years.
But, of course, there was no such involvement on any level of “justice” in my case.
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For decades in “recovery talk” people spoke of “wounds” as perhaps being more serious than “injuries” might be. Semantics? What I am thinking about this morning has more to do with how to get myself UNSTUCK from something painful that of course connects into pain from my severe trauma history. Once I realized that my inner focus in trying to get off of dead center regarding my concerns is connected to a sense of an “injustice” having been done – then, to me right now, whether or not I experience a wound, or wounding, is not a concern at the top of my “figure this out ASAP” pile.
I want to understand something I am not figuring out on my own right now, so I will certainly be taking this to my 2nd therapist appointment today. Being stuck is not remotely constructive!
I realize that for decades of my adult life I had friendships within which I could talk with others about anything and everything in my life – and in theirs. Those friendships do not exist in the same ways any more, even if those same people are still within my sphere of contact.
I miss those kinds of friendships terribly!
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Here is my first book out in ebook format as it provides an outline of the conditions of my malevolent childhood. Click here to view or purchase–
Story Without Words: How Did Child Abuse Break My Mother?
It lists for $2.99 and can be read by Amazon Prime customers without charge. A daring book – for daring readers – about a really tough subject.
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