Food For Thought...

Things that make ya go 'Hmmm....'

First, let me start off with this:
I heard a lyric today that, though the song content is not applicable here, the very first verse is... to me:

"There's something I have to tell you
Why can't I spit it out?
Coming clean's a breakthrough
Excuse me if I shout"
                   -- Livy High "Light In My Soul"

I saw this image this 'morning' -- my morning, at 12:58pm -- and this really 'grabbed' me.  I never really thought about it before, but when you have been wounded it is as if the 'armor' you've been wearing has been pierced, punctured.  It's like the a hole has been punched through the walls we build around ourselves for protection and bright, brilliant light is now flooding into our dark rooms; the  ...un-witting... prisons we've built for ourselves.  So, then... why does it hurt so much?  

I think it hurts so much because we have become so accustomed to living in our own 'dark world' within ourselves.... it's as if we've been living, chained, in a cave all this time and we have come out and seen the light for the first time... it's going to hurt until our eyes adjust to the light.

Unfortunately, most of us just find (read build) another cave to seal ourselves up in.  What we don't realize is the damage we're doing to ourselves by shutting ourselves up inside our walls, inside our caves.  By doing so, we are only setting ourselves up to be hurt again, and again.  

But, what if... 

What if we say, "Enough is enough!" 

What if we become 'open', and give of ourselves freely, going into the world knowing (read accepting) that "This Is Gonna Hurt"*.

I'm not saying to come out, guns blazing and jump right into the deep end of the pool before you have learned how to swim; you have to crawl before you can walk, and walk before you can run.  But...  what if we slowly come out of our dark world and into the light; let our eyes adjust slowly, so the pain of sudden light doesn't hurt so much.  

After all... isn't that what healing is all about?  We need the light to heal our wounds.  Without it... they will simple fester within us.  A... "self inflicted murder"*, so to speak.   

'Hmmm' indeed... I get it now... I get it.

Definitely food for thought...

Let's make some scars.

Please be kind to others, most especially yourself.  Namaste'.

Peace, love, LIGHT, and blessings.

~Jenna

*from the song "This Is Gonna Hurt" by SIXX: A.M.