I am SO tired! But I am not feeling down, as I do sometimes when I am tired. I know it sounds horrible, but seeing people in worse circumstances than my own makes me feel… hopeful and good about my life. I guess there are always people to compare yourself to who are in worse circumstances, so this should probably not be my standard, but tonight it is. I am too tired for anything else.
I just went to see “Precious” – the movie – and it was SO hard to watch! So raw, so jarring, so sobering… there are people out there who struggle to get out of the house every day, who struggle to believe that they deserve to be alive when the same people who gave life to them are then unspeakably cruel.
“Love aint done nothing for me. Love beat me, raped me, made me sick.”
Who am I to sit around saying I don’t believe in love? People like Precious suffer so much more, and still have the strength to get up and move forward. Her mother beat her, her father raped her and gave her two children.
It broke my heart. But it also put it back together.
Diana Goes to America 