Forgiveness is something that not everyone can do. Forgiveness is thrown around as if in the blink of an eye everything will change, but is it that easy? Forgiving someone can be very easy depending on the problem such as if your sister or brother takes your candy or if someone steps on your shoe, but what about the gut wrenching situations such as rape, kidnapping, or life and death is it still that easy? It could have happened to anyone, but it happened to me. It was a normal Friday night nothing strange or out of the ordinary. I wasn’t wearing revealing clothes or seducing him, but that didn’t stop him. He approached me, but I didn’t think anything of it. We were out to eat for a gathering, something my friends and I did …show more content…
I was in a random hotel room in a location unknown to me. As I looked around the room frantically for my clothes the reality of it all came crashing down on me. I was raped and the worst part of it all is I knew him, trusted him, and loved him as a friend. After coming to the realization of what happened I searched for my phone, which was thrown across the room, to call my mother. When she answered the phone I could her the worriedness in her voice as I tried to explain to her where I was and what happened. My mother asked me what the address of the hotel was and I didn’t know so I frantically knocked on the doors of everyone else, but none of them answer. That is until a women answered her door and told me the address. After I told my mother the address she hung up on me and called the police. As I sat in the hallway flashbacks of dinner the previous night played in my mind. The police finally arrived and I was examined for rape. As they examined me all I could do was cry. How could I let this happen to me I asked myself. Why would he do this to me or anyone for that matter? Could I have stopped this ? What did I do to become a victim? I needed answers for all of these questions, but the one I needed answered the most was how many more women did he do this