Day to Day happenings in my life

Traumatised

Written for Journalistic Intentions. Prompt:Trauma does not make you stronger. Trauma makes you traumatised. The end."

That statement is so matter of fact. It’s as if it’s set in stone. Everyone will be forever traumatised who experiences trauma? Surely not. Each and everyone of us is different according to some quirk of nature. Or is it nurture?
We all know ourselves on a level that is actually perfectly fine on an every day level. We know, most of us anyway, that we can or must roll with the punches of everyday life. No one has sailed through without some days which are shit.
However no one can tell how we’d handle being paralysed after an accident or if we lost a child or our house burned down.
I’m sure we think we’d know. Hope that we’d be brave, philosophical and cope with it in an adult fashion. And yet in truth who actually knows?
Personally, I know I could face losing my home to a fire, I know this because possessions aren’t that important to me. I’ve moved countries, left family behind and beautiful homes. What I wouldn’t react well to was losing any of my family to a tragedy. Would I fall in a heap? Possibly, but forever? I hope not. But who knows? Not I.
Yet I think that in some cases trauma could make someone stronger. It might elicit strengths they never knew they had. There are so many examples of trauma bringing out the best in people, making them angry or determined enough to not let the trauma destroy their lives but to make it even better.