Chaos

This is honest .

This is fact.

This is graphic.

There are pictures and there is descriptive account of a violent assault.

Any names that appear in photos or text have been

previously released by law enforcement to the public

through many different local and national news mediums.

All I ask is for you to pause and reflect before commenting on my experience

with the knowledge that I am still on this journey,

I am human,

and most importantly I'm not holding feelings of rage,

revenge, hate, anger, or righteousness.

I forgave my attackers within hours

of waking from my coma and

I do not need pity or want praise for that .

If you harbor those feelings because you have your own

experience that you find relation to mine with, I get it.

But I'm not going to carry that weight as my own and I wish you strength and self compassion on your own path.

I do not want conflict, I'm too tired and too old

and too busy picking up the pieces of my soul and my life to care to fight.

I offer my respect and my promise to take different perspectives and remain honest

and to listen and communicate clearly as I can thru the stages of this experience .

This is all I can offer.

Thank you for Understanding.

~Ali