duddins
Patron Meritorious
This forum is an interesting one...."What are your strategies for starting over and leaving the C of S in your past?"
Starting over:
1st off, I would not have been able to start over had it not been for a caring soul who understood what I was going through and unconditionally reached out to me and helped me.
I was at one time the CO of the FOLO over Latin America at Mexico City. I was there for several years and had made Mexico my home. I was considered a successful CO. I had become engaged to be married to a man who was a month or two away from a final divorce. We had waited for a year and a half. Mexico is not as free with divorces as one may think.
I wanted to help the people of Mexico, but I was keenly aware of the differences in economy of Mexico to the US. So much poverty..... I started to originate telexes....trying to increase awareness about the economic situation there....It was considered CI I suppose.
FAST FORWARD.....pulled to the US, Comm Ev: Accused of High crimes, etc. Comm Ev clears me of all but minor omissions in mgmt but I am told that I could not go back to Mexico.
I blew.
I stayed in the US with my parents for months. I got a temp job. No feeling. Lost. No thoughts of my own. Just judgements....I was making on myself....trying to replay and figure out what had happened. I knew I did not want to go back to the SO. I knew that I had been unjustly stonewalled. I knew that I was not an SP. I knew I did not want to be in the US.
I saved up money and took a train to Mexico. I rented a hotel room. I made attempts to contact my fiance. He had been cut off from me. Told I was never coming back. Everyone I loved and knew and concidered my friend now saw me as Bad. A bad person, an SP. I had never, and have never since felt so incredibly alone.
A friend was sent my way....Elena. I dont even remember her last name. She was a doctor who ran a clinic that served the impoverished. She was an ex-Scientologist. She seemed to understand my pain. Never asked me for anything...never suggested anything...or expected anything of me. She gave me a place to stay at the clinic, and comfort. A room that was my home for 6months. She gave me tasks to do to keep busy, but no preasure.
I cried....for those months. I stared at the cieling and thought....cried some more. Stared at the cieling more....thought and cried more.
I tried once more to reach my fiance...we finally spoke and said goodbye.
I cried more and thought more, but a thin light began to shine through. Each day, gradually became more bareable than the one before it. Finally on a beautiful May day, I went out for a walk and somehow it felt good to be alive again.
I began working for Elena, managing the finances for her little clinic. I became an extra pair of hands to help the people who came in with their sick children. I helped deliver several new lives to the world. I grew stronger....as a human being. It was not so much about me anymore. Others were in need.
Eventually, I became closer to Elena as a friend and moved to her home. In exchange for her kindness I became a tutor and nanny to her young sons Jose and Jorge. (approx 7 and 9 yrs old at the time.) The three of us were unseperable. To this date, I am grateful to them for my life. They gave it meaning, and after the SO I deeply needed to have meaning in my life.
I will write more later.
Starting over:
1st off, I would not have been able to start over had it not been for a caring soul who understood what I was going through and unconditionally reached out to me and helped me.
I was at one time the CO of the FOLO over Latin America at Mexico City. I was there for several years and had made Mexico my home. I was considered a successful CO. I had become engaged to be married to a man who was a month or two away from a final divorce. We had waited for a year and a half. Mexico is not as free with divorces as one may think.
I wanted to help the people of Mexico, but I was keenly aware of the differences in economy of Mexico to the US. So much poverty..... I started to originate telexes....trying to increase awareness about the economic situation there....It was considered CI I suppose.
FAST FORWARD.....pulled to the US, Comm Ev: Accused of High crimes, etc. Comm Ev clears me of all but minor omissions in mgmt but I am told that I could not go back to Mexico.
I blew.
I stayed in the US with my parents for months. I got a temp job. No feeling. Lost. No thoughts of my own. Just judgements....I was making on myself....trying to replay and figure out what had happened. I knew I did not want to go back to the SO. I knew that I had been unjustly stonewalled. I knew that I was not an SP. I knew I did not want to be in the US.
I saved up money and took a train to Mexico. I rented a hotel room. I made attempts to contact my fiance. He had been cut off from me. Told I was never coming back. Everyone I loved and knew and concidered my friend now saw me as Bad. A bad person, an SP. I had never, and have never since felt so incredibly alone.
A friend was sent my way....Elena. I dont even remember her last name. She was a doctor who ran a clinic that served the impoverished. She was an ex-Scientologist. She seemed to understand my pain. Never asked me for anything...never suggested anything...or expected anything of me. She gave me a place to stay at the clinic, and comfort. A room that was my home for 6months. She gave me tasks to do to keep busy, but no preasure.
I cried....for those months. I stared at the cieling and thought....cried some more. Stared at the cieling more....thought and cried more.
I tried once more to reach my fiance...we finally spoke and said goodbye.
I cried more and thought more, but a thin light began to shine through. Each day, gradually became more bareable than the one before it. Finally on a beautiful May day, I went out for a walk and somehow it felt good to be alive again.
I began working for Elena, managing the finances for her little clinic. I became an extra pair of hands to help the people who came in with their sick children. I helped deliver several new lives to the world. I grew stronger....as a human being. It was not so much about me anymore. Others were in need.
Eventually, I became closer to Elena as a friend and moved to her home. In exchange for her kindness I became a tutor and nanny to her young sons Jose and Jorge. (approx 7 and 9 yrs old at the time.) The three of us were unseperable. To this date, I am grateful to them for my life. They gave it meaning, and after the SO I deeply needed to have meaning in my life.
I will write more later.
) God knows I have cried buckets over the years, but eventually the good has filled those spaces where I was being so hard on myself and the wind still can blow through.