I don't think I'm damaged goods though. What that person said was just foolish. Part of being human is to know just how fragile life is. That we are mortal. That we live on earth. It's a place of war, gore, disease and death. It's rarely a pretty place and the best we can do is gang after glee.

Damaged goods is just that person's pessimism. I may believe I have an uglier past than most, and I may have a dx worst that most but that is besides the point. To define me in that way is to look at what I simply have endured and erred, and not what I stand for.

My greatest fear isn't even death. It's that I may not contribute to the world in some meaningful way. What does that say about me? It says more than a person that said I'm damaged goods.