Uncultured daniella5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() But how could I tell the people I loved that I was rejecting their world, and everything they believed in, forever? That I was prepared to never see them again because I didn’t have faith? That I was willing to go to Hell to escape them? That I was choosing me over them? I couldn’t do it. If I didn’t come up for breath soon, I wouldn’t survive. It didn’t matter how much I loved and didn’t want to disappoint my parents. ![]() After fifteen years of being forced to worship a Prophet I never believed in, sacrifice for a God I didn’t love, and live a life in a religious prison camp, where they controlled my every thought and movement, I was drowning. When we moved to our third commune in Mexico in less than a year, in Guadalajara this time, I was not only angry enough to burn it all down I was ready. The following is an excerpt from Uncultured by Daniella Mestyanek Young, a memoir about a woman's ability to transform the circumstances of her life through inner strength and resilience. ![]()
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