
I bought a broken down neglected boat in May of 2024. I was told it runs, it just needs some cleaning but is otherwise good to go. I did not suspect it was not true, because a professional boat service business had been taken care of the boat for the last 5-6 years.
When I got the boat, I fixed her up, sanded the hull and painted it, cleaned up the inside and deck, waxed her etc, changed batteries and oil and other general maintenance things. I got the engine started and running, just to check it runs. Then I checked the steering.. stuck.. So no go to the sea yet, had to change the steering wheel, drum and wire. Finally after about a month of working it was ready for the water.
When put it the water and drove to my piere, the engine overheated. It took me the whole summer to get everything repaired and my boating season starter september 24 and ended november 18.
During the winter I pulled the engine partly apart and worked on it to make it even better. I got it ready and put it in the water 2 weeks ago. And now it’s in a pretty good shape. Yes, I still have things I will make better, but now I can use it and enjoy the sea and the sunsets. A neglected, broken down boat got a new life, and it has give meaning to not just me, but also to other people, with showing the broken things can be repaired and given a second chance.
But this story is not about my boat, I’m writing about women.
Just as my boat, some women are victims of physical and mental abuse from men. They have not only been neglected but they have been actively put down physically and mentally in a brutal way, sometimes for many many years. And many of these women believe they are not worth anything and that they don’t deserve anything good anymore, but they are wrong, because they deserve all the good the world can give.
These women are worth a lot, first of all, they have walked through a place worse than hell, a place so brutal and evil that I can’t even imagine what it would feel like to even just set my foot there for a brief moment, and it almost tears me up to know that some women are forced to stay there for years and still somehow they have been able to survive.
They are stronger than most of us, and sometimes they don’t just walk through this evil place alone, they have children and they have protected and raised their children in the middle of this evil place and in the end these women have been able to take their children to safety from this eveil place. A woman who is able to protect and raise their children in a place like that, while trying to stay alive themselves, they are not only strong, they are super women and super mothers.
Even with a broken soul, a broken heart, these women are worth more than they can imagine and believe themselves, they are women who can do anything! And their broken soul and their broken heart CAN BE REPAIRED, step by step, day by day, their souls and their hearts will be repaired and they will be able to live, laugh and love again. Sometimes it takes just a brief time, sometimes it might take a whole lifetime to learn to live, laugh and love again, but I am 100% sure of one one thing, these women’s hearts WILL LEARN TO LOVE AGAIN.
Things that are broken, can be repaired and they will shine stronger and brighter than ever before.
For me, these super women and super mothers are heroes, they are people who I admire with my whole heart.
Love, the strongest power in the universe, love will win at the end.