The other day after taking a bite of some really spicy food I remarked, “It’s food like this that let’s me know I’m alive.”
I think I’ve even said something similar about pain. You know, the unexpected/surprise pain you get when you hit your elbow “just right” or catch your pinky toe on the corner of the coffee table or bed. I’m sure you’ve experienced one or both of these.
What is it about spicy food or pain that makes you “feel alive”?
Have we grown so numb (dead) to “normal, every day stimuli” that it takes “something extraordinary” to make us aware (alive) of the world around us?
Or maybe, we’ve chosen to live life in a bubble; keeping “things” that may hurt us or have hurt us in the past at arms length or buried deep in a vault so we don’t have to deal with them.
We often bury the pain deep within ourselves, hoping it will go away on it’s own, but it never does. Maybe we’re ashamed. Maybe we’re afraid.
Burying hurts & pain is no way to go through life. I know this seems to be a common topic for me to blog about, but it’s something we all do. And it’s something we all need to stop doing! We never talk about the hurt! We need to start!!
Did ya ever think that maybe if ya talked about it, the pain might go away; that maybe simply “popping the bubble”or “tearing dwon that wall” might cause a burst of pain, but by opening the wound it might actually receive what it needs to heal?
Why is there a stigma associated with talking with a therapist, social worker, or psychologist? These are trained professionals who are skilled and equipped to help you with processing those items you don’t know how, simply cannot process, or maybe don’t want to process.
Sometimes in life you simply can‘t see the forest through the trees. Those, my friends, are the times you need to find someone to talk with; before the burden of pain or grief becomes too great to bear…and you end up in a “bubble” or buried deep in a “vault of despair”. Those are not the ways to live!
So, these are your choices – “dead” or “alive”.
I know which I’m going to choose.
How ‘bout you?
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