Life Can Be

Life can be short but exciting, it can be long and miserable—essentially it is up to us. How we divide our time for what we need and what we want can be the determining factors, but not the only ones. We must also take into account our hearts, we can’t just skip past the beats of our hearts as if each beat doesn’t count towards something. From the agony of hurt to the rush of joy and pleasure. The heart is a muscle with the capability to be strengthened or weakened and every pump gives us that much more life, energy, movement. Every battle between emotional distress and healing that we survive is preparation, making us war ready—giving us an extra beat. Of course it is always easier to say this than it is to understand and missed steps along the walks of our journeys are necessary for they show us our true selves, just like a baby crawling into footsteps.

You see, falling and failing are ok and really in my opinion should be embraced, for those two can expose us to our boundaries and/or where we must set some. In a society where one’s self worth can be so quickly braced upon material success, it is not hard for someone to feel lost and devoid of purpose when things don’t look or turn out the way we expected, and soon we deflect from everything that made us want to be here. That child like excitement when experiencing things for the first time, how important it was to get that wave back or even that smile from a stranger. We become numb.

That curiosity we harbored as children was a wonder but as we get older we become more aware of life, and some become afraid to confront the unknown and never grow. As for those who maintain their optimism coupled with an honest consideration of reality may often find themselves ahead for they have not allowed fear to drag them into the category of the know it alls. Know it all syndrome as I call it is the culprit of pessimism, and can be the killer of manifesting anything. On the other hand being overly optimistic and oblivious to reality can bring trouble too. Being overly anything is never good but not enough is just as bad, so the answer becomes balance. The way I see it, balance must be the solution to the equation when asking the why’s of our lows and during the celebrations of our high’s. Sometimes it’s easier said than done, and sometimes it’s just as easy done as it is said—essentially Life can be the break in the cocoon that the butterfly fled.

Our conscious minds are not made to keep track of every single beat and sometimes backtracking back down the journey that brought us forward may be necessary, though it can remind us of past scars from who we were, it can bring clarity to who we are. For some the familiarity can be a bit much, but I personally would rather the familiarity than to deal with the psychosis and chaos of avoidance. Let life be your stage to showcase your performance, we are all capable of something.

So long as every scrape and every scab is allowed to heal, and recover, then a new layer of skin will form over that old wound— that doesn’t mean that we won’t remember the injury but that’s the beauty in our connection to the past, present , and future. The past is the like the initial cut , the present is where the scab starts to form, this is were we can determine what we do about the cut, and the future will be our new layer of skin. Our past when analyzed properly can be like a weapon of protection against our anxiety for the future, since we’ve made it this far.

The aftermath of our situations; assuming that we have taken the due diligence to fix our mistakes, can become our chance to pause and analyze our actions, as well as others and our reactions to the emotions that led to those actions that might have brung us to turmoil, which is the cut. The present? Well that’s where we must live—this is our chance to create a new future, place the neosporin, peroxide, and separate from the wounds that we must inevitably heal from or become infected.

After placing your healing solution of choice, with faith that it was the right one; which you will know once you feel that burn from addressing the injury, you will likely after sometime notice your skin starting to form a scab. You may even find yourself having the urge to pick at it sometimes. Sounds a lot like past traumas to me. While picking at a scab may prolong the skins healing, “picking” at a past trauma in a lot of ways can be the same. When dealing with emotional or physical wounds, healing can be therapy, and therapy is not just sitting on a couch talking to a stranger but it can be. Therapy can also be painting, walking, running, cussing, screaming! Any sort of release that places your soul at ease.

Cures to our emotional injuries are just as real as the healing of our physical, and just like that scab we might sometimes find ourselves picking at our old injuries. In short don’t go on too long without healing that cut.