Life After Pain (A Walk Everyday May Blog)

 Hi Dragonflies, I've currently been studying childcare and some of the stuff I stumble upon has inspired me with this blog. The UNCRC stands for the United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child.  The purpose of the United Nation’s Convention of the Rights of Children outlines the rights of children in international law and it includes 54 points that cover all parts of a child’s life to ensure all children receive equal care, attention and access to political, economic, social and cultural needs that they deserve. The reason I relate to this document is because this blog is all about human rights and children's rights are human rights. I write this blog to expose the people that trample intentionally on the rights of others and I relate it to my own experience of childhood trauma and encountering other abusive people in my adult life. It's not just certain family members I have come across who are abusive but also people I'm not related to. Of course, I won'...

  https://youtu.be/JRCqbxTsU60?si=tKY1uRVdmq6rcDZH Hi Dragonflies, I read It Ends With Us a week before the movie came out and it was recommended to me by my friend Gurpreet Dhariwal who has been a huge support for me when it comes to Walk Everyday May. I read the book and I enjoyed it. For me, I felt like the telling of the story between Ryle and Lily was more about seeing the relationship via the victim's eyes and that the victim was in love. When you see this kind of relationship through the eyes of others it looks very different. But I also agree with the critiques of this book and film. I saw the movie and it was ok, but I felt it didn't carry as much emotional weight as the book. I was also surprised when people I knew who weren't that interested in the topic of DV were very interested in seeing this movie. It actually made me angry that these people wanted to watch this movie because I felt like the fact that they were excited to see this film was a little insulting,...