i threw my broken finger nail onto the grass ..
.
i know, it sounds weird af. but there is an explanation & a shift.
i want to remember this.
.
when i was little, & in the throws of being sexually assaulted *insert eye ball roll*, there was a story i was told, quite a few times, if i remember rightly.
fuck face would talk about satanism & nazism A Lot. in amongst all his trash talk (which i didn’t know was trash talk then), he talked about how satanists would gather up the hair or fingernails of people they wanted to curse. they’d use those items to do a bit of a funky blood soaked ritual & tadah, curse laid.
now i didn’t know that this wasnt satanism. i also believed his bullshit because everything he said & did was to my detriment so it was kinda better to be on the safe side & roll with the BS he spouted. & obviously, there was no google then. & the climate of my ‘christian’ upbringing supported his line of twoodle.
anyways .. enter adulthood & i started to learn better.
i figured out, fuck face had borrowed from his limited understanding of voodoo *insert another big ass eye ball roll*, & laced it with his satanist slash nazi BS ..
why? cos it sounded good & it terrified everyone, especially me.
guess what .. a terrified person / child is a lot more pliable than an assertive confident one.
anyways .. even though i understood all this as an adult, i ‘d still burn my fingernails and toenails, & hair for that matter, after they’d been cut. i’ve been doing it for years without giving it much thought. culturally, we use to bury them ; as in, so they are returned to the earth. not many peeps do that anymore .. but yeah.
but as this grown ass adult, here i was, still, all these years later, just doing the cautious thing, even though my ‘better judgement’ knew it to be BS.
so the other day, after i’d broken a nail, i tracked it down & proceeded to throw it into the fire .. & then i stopped, & waited.
standing there like a dufus, i recounted the countless freakish moments of fear that led me to this pointless fingernail burning ritual.
& realised that every time i do it, i give it life.
its BS, & i give it life because it had become a cautious & necessary part of my young existence .. but i realised, i wasnt little anymore, i had a choice based on fact, not horrific fantasy.
i ended up crying.
holding on to that bloody fingernail & crying my eyeballs out.
then i stopped.
then i got overwhelmed with anger.
then ..
i threw that bitch out on to our lawn.
funny thing .. i felt like my whole internal being, literally shifted.
it took a couple hours to process .. & then i went & looked for the fingernail lol ffs.
& when i couldn’t find it, then i let it go.
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i think theres gonna be quite a few moments like this .. coming and going .. as i figure out the ‘new me’ that wants to live without all that fuckery attached to my throat.
fuck him.
fuck his fucked up voodoo satanist BS stories.
fuck his nazi BS.
completely & utterly, fuck that cunt!
this is #mystory now!
kpm©
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