Victimology 101

School has been exceptional in helping me understanding myself and some of the situations I have had in life. Right now I have a class actually called Victimology. Before I started the class I thought it was going to be easy since I have spent most of my life playing the victim roll. I would know exactly what the answers were and I could ease through the class with little worry.

O.K. rarely do I ever think I am going to ease through anything. Really, I did think my past would help me and it has. What I didn't expect was how emotionally draining this class would be. Much like writing my books, talking about all the different types of abuse in class gets to me. It brings up a lot of feelings I didn't now still existed in me.

I have had to deal with other's points of views about victims and that is tough too. There is light at the end of the tunnel though. I know why I was suppose to take this class. I knew it when I sat in class and realized how other people see victims. It made me realize my books are not just for people who are suffering through being a victim.

My books are just as much for those who can't understand what a victim is going through and why they can't just get out. It is for those that haven't experienced a life like that, but for one reason or another need to step into someone else's shoes and get a new perspective. Just as it would be hard for me to know a life without tragidy how can we expect other's to "get" what we have gone through if we don't teach them?