Explain your name in Prompts

I guess I’ll explain my PB name since it’ll give me more to write about than my actual name.

WanderingWarrior. It’s a new tag. I have the usual two I stick with for everything. But I wanted something different for my PB. Something I’ve never used before. A symbol of something new, you know?

Wandering because that’s what I feel like I’m doing. I feel like I’m just wandering through life right now. I have a sense of what I want but no one way to get there. I know I want to have a decent job where I make decent money without totally hating what I do. And I want a person. I want someone to love me and to love.

I wander around life trying to find interesting paths to take me to those things.

Warrior. Now THAT’S not something I ever considered myself. Not until recently anyway.

Trigger warning: domestic abuse/sexual assault

Long story short, I was in an abusive relationship and it ended up with him raping me. It seriously fucked with my life. I went into a severe depression, started self harming, had PTSD for a while. I was a mess.

Thankfully I had a great support group and managed to pull myself out of the hole I fell into. I still have flashbacks occasionally and the urge to self harm is still there. I haven’t done it in almost a year now. It’s been a struggle but I got through it. I survived and now I’m just pushing forward.

I was a victim. Then I was a survivor. Now I’m a warrior. I fight to maintain a sense of stability and to refrain from falling back into the pit.