Life Is About Struggling and Overcoming Pain, and You Can’t Grow without Accepting That Fact

Being an Adult involves pain

Lawson Wallace
ILLUMINATION
Published in
4 min readMar 16

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Photo by Nathan Cowley: https://www.pexels.com/photo/man-wearing-blue-and-maroon-plaid-shirt-sitting-on-a-rock-near-a-body-of-water-2489674/

The four of us came home from the hospital in stunned silence. A few minutes earlier I had called 911. While I watched from the doorway of my parent’s bedroom my mom flatlined.

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Lawson Wallace
ILLUMINATION

63-year-old married guy, I have been writing stories for years, but never submitted or published anything. I write about my successes and failures, everything.