My best friend and I … well ... we like to read dark, morbid books. We have started a book reading club of these types of books amongst ourselves. I know that she is frustrated at my speed reading and that I have read five books to her two but I am patient and ensure that I don’t ruin her reading experience.
Anyways, we are reading memoirs on some cruel, sick and disturbed individuals that lack normal parenting skills and ethics. It is amazing to read what these survivors suffered and endured as children at the hands of some twisted individuals. When I read one of these books; I find myself asking the same question(s) over and over again. Primarily, how can someone treat any child and/or human being this way? What on earth makes them think that their choices and behaviour is justifiable, ethical or humane?
Why do we, my friend and I, read these types of books? I think we do because we see that no matter what kind of hell these children lived through - they have managed to survive it and make something of themselves in spite of all of it, and now they have the strength and the courage to re-live the whole experience again so that they can share it with the world in hopes that they will educate people of such cruelty and mainly try their hardest to prevent this from occurring again and again.
It is very sad to know that these types of inhumane acts occur over and over again all around the world (and more so in certain countries). It is disturbing to know that there are people out there that are sick, perverted and morbid enough to inflict such horrors on anyone let alone and innocent child.
We have read and plan to read more of Cathy Glass’s books. She was a foster parent and tells the stories of some of the children she fostered and helped in their time of need. It is absolutely amazing that Cathy has and had the heart and patience to open her home and family to these troubled and scared children. It takes a special individual to be able to do that and to cope with the horrors of each of these children as she assists them in obtaining a better, healthier future.
There are many times while reading these memoirs that my heart breaks for these individuals that suffered in their childhood. Times that I thought I could comprehend the wickedness of mankind to discover that, yet again, I couldn’t have possibly imagined that. Some horrors are so unimaginable that they become hard to believe as the truth. I don’t think many of us can comprehend or imagine the degrees of cruelty that someone might inflict upon another.
After completing a book, I need to take time to reflect and purge the evil that I had just witnessed during the story. I look at my daughter and think (with my fingers and toes crossed) that I will move mountains to ensure that nothing like that ever happens to you. I will embrace you with my love and protect you from all harm. I will always love, nurture and support you through thick and thin. I will always be the one person that she can rely on and trust full heatedly.
What these books give me in the end is knowledge of what the warning signs can be and opened my eyes to be weary - that many have betrayed and that I have to be on my toes as a mother, friend and neighbour. That one’s character and soul is strong enough to overcome anything with time, love and support.
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