Sandra Wilson coined the phrase “hurt people hurt people.” This profound statement has opened up a whole new world of self exploration of people, who have been hurt by someone and have repeated the cycle. We see this everyday in our students at Teen Challenge. She shares with the reader (student) that even though some pain is self inflicted, “our deepest wounds come at the hands of those we love and trust,” (pg. 10).
She encourages the reader (student) to not ignore what they are feeling or tell themselves that they should not feel a certain way or seek comfort from someone else. It is the humanity in the students that cause them to feel what they feel and that is ok. Students who have been hurt in the past are prone to hurt someone else. Wilson shows that being hurt is a seed that if not attended to and dealt with, will, with time, govern how they react and respond to life and the people around them. Life is about choices and how those choices are made.
