Thank you for despising me, so that I could honor the person I've decided to become.

Thank you for shouting at me, so that I'm soft-spoken today.

Thank you for abandoning me. I found myself along the way.

We have a choice when faced with injustice: either let it defeat us or learn and grow from it. The decision is ours.Our struggles can become pathways to gratitude and strength. Sometimes it takes courage to be grateful, but it leads to victory.<ol><li class="ql-align-justify">Choice when facing injustice</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Learning and growing from struggles</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Choosing victory through gratitude</li></ol>🌱💪🏼 Our past doesn't have to determine our future. Let's choose growth and gratitude despite injustice.

Injustice and Growth

In life, we can't always blame others for our problems. We must claim responsibility for our actions in order to become empowered to make a change. Thanking our parents for their lessons and acknowledging our own faults is the key to growth and progress.Let's stop being victims and start being the masters of our own lives. By being grateful and forgiving, we can rise above our past and soar towards a brighter future. 🦅

Taking Responsibility to Stop Being a Victim

Thank you for not believing in me, so that I could begin believing in myself.

Thank you for making my life miserable, to show me that I allow my miseries and create my joys.

Thank you for treating me like dirt, so I could learn that I’m diamonds.

Thank you for calling me names, so I could redefine myself in brighter words.

Thank you for beating me, so that I shall never harm myself or others.

Thank you for denying me, so I can affirm myself.

Thank you for trying to crush my dreams and smother my hopes, to show me it’s not your belief that makes them real, but mine.

Thank you for being unreliable, so that I could learn to count on myself.

Thank you for hating me, so that I could love who I am, and who I'm yet to be.

Thank you for abusing me, so that I shall treat myself always with respect.

Thank you for breaking your promises to me. I shall keep mine to others.

Thank you for being the person I never want to be, making it easy for me to become your opposite.

Thank you for neglecting me, so that I'll treasure myself.

Thank you for ignoring my gifts, so I could nourish them in spite of odds.

Thank you for your bitterness, so that I could learn sweet gratitude.

Thank you for not supporting me, so that I've prospered on my own.

Thank you for trying to make me feel guilty, so that I'll never again change my path for someone else's sake.

Thank you for your endless complaining, so that I've learned to accept the consequences of my choices.

Thank you for expecting the worst of me, so that I demand the best of me.

Thank you for not supporting my choices, so that I can trust them on my own.

Thank you for trying to poison my mind, so that I learned to dissolve my own destructive thoughts.

Thank you for putting me down, so that I can ignore value judgements of those I don't admire.

Thank you for choosing to destroy yourself, so that I build myself strong and bright.

Thank you for doing to me what your parents did to you. I'll break that cycle with my children.

Thank you for abusing and assaulting me when I was helpless, to teach me I cannot be destroyed.

Thank you for telling me I'll never amount to anything, so I'm free to become anyone I choose.

Thank you for raising me without guidance, so that I learned to guide myself.

Thank you for restricting me, so that I refuse to limit myself or others.

Thank you for lying to me, so that I treasure truth.

Thank you for showing me chaos, so that I value order.

Thank you for pulling me down, and giving me reason to fly.

Thank you for discounting my pain, so that I could learn to let it go.

Practices in gratitude. Give thanks to your scar-givers. They made you into the awesome and loving person you are today.

Thank Your Wicked Parents has at its core a shocking but undeniable truth: Some parents are wicked and repeatedly lash their helpless children with abuse and humiliation. Other parents, while not intentionally malicious, nevertheless fail to provide their family with the loving kindness that they need and deserve. But the author also offers a positive message: While uncaring, cruel parents can't change the long history of their abuse, grown-up children should not only let the misery of the past go, but also learn from the lessons that their parents unintentionally taught them through their actions. In other words, the pain of the past can be transformed into blessings. A unique book, Thank Your Wicked Parents is intended to offend abusive parents and, more important, to provide their adult children with a new perspective on the past and a path to a far brighter future.

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Since Jonathan Livingston Seagull - which dominated the #1 spot on the New York Times Bestseller List for two consecutive years - Richard Bach has touched millions of people through his humor, wisdom and insight.With over 60 million copies of his books sold, Richard Bach remains one of the world's most beloved authors. A former USAF fighter pilot, Air Force captain and latter-day barnstorming pilot, Bach continues to be an avid aviator-author, exploring and chronicling the joys and freedom of flying, reporting his findings to readers.His most recent works include Travels with Puff, which recounts Bach's journey from Florida to Washington state in his small seaplane, Puff, and Illusions II: The Adventures of a Reluctant S