It was only for two years, and I jumped from family to family. It’s very scary.

In this recollection, Blige compresses the instability of a childhood period into a few blunt sentences: a short span (“only for two years”) that nonetheless felt prolonged because it involved repeated displacement (“jumped from family to family”). The plain, present-tense phrasing—“It’s very scary”—underscores how such experiences can remain emotionally immediate long after they end. The quote highlights how precarious housing and caregiving arrangements can produce fear, hypervigilance, and a sense of not belonging, themes that often surface in narratives of resilience. It also suggests that trauma is not measured only by duration but by the uncertainty and lack of control a person endures.