They ask us not to dig some graves, but we do end up digging them. As a result, we unearth a few secrets that can change everything. That can change the way how you look at life, transform it for better or for worse.
While we were just getting over an anonymous confession of a love child, here comes another. While that left you shocked, this will leave you bewildered.
In the discussion under the Quora thread, What is the most surprising secret someone has revealed to you?, we stumbled upon an anonymously written answer that talks about a girl who mothered a child when she was 11. It tells us, how a rape of a minor, turns her whole life into something else. Read along –Â
I was 27 and slept with my neighbour after a few weeks of flirtation. She had divorced six months ago and was in a custodial battle for her child.
After sex, she took out her cigarette in the dark and started to smoke. The type of smoking that isn’t post-coital, but one where you go into deep thought. I thought she might have felt guilty about the entire event – like whether or not she felt we might have been better off as friends.
Me: What’s wrong?
Her: I never truly enjoyed sex. I had a lot of sex with my husband but I don’t enjoy it.
I felt a bit bummed. I thought I didn’t do a good job. I thought I did, but clearly I didnt.
Me: Uhm, How Come?
Her: I was raped when I was 10. I had a baby when I was 11 and [they] forced me to abandon her at my hospital.
Me: I’m Sorry…
Her: I still think about her. I wonder what she’s like and if she’s had a good life. She would be 17 right now.
I couldn’t really respond to that. It was overwhelming to hear something that still gives me a pause.
Her: I want to find her.
We didn’t speak much after that. I did meet her recently. She was living in a polygamous relationship with her divorce attorney and his wife; got her son back and seemed to be genuinely happy. She had basically ‘let go’ – gotten fatter, her hair was gray but still looked pretty at 38. We did speak about her long lost daughter over coffee – she said she was still looking for her. I hope she finds her one day.
She mothered a child at 11! The gravity of this whole answer baffles me. 53% of children in our country are sexually abused or molested. It changes their life, forever. It deprives them of a normal childhood and they are filled with fear, anxiety and pain; they can’t even share. Their vocabulary doesn’t allow them to. And when they grow up, it stays, it lingers and that is a tough life to live.
We cannot let this happen to the kids of our country. Let every kid has his chance at a normal childhood.
Source: Quora