When It Hurts-It Hurts
What do you do when you’re hurting, I mean really, really hurting? From my experience there is no antidote, just time. As time goes on (which it most certainly will), the pain fades. That’s all fine & dandy but what about in the meantime while you’re in the midst/state of hurting? How exactly does one cope? Well, wisdom has whispered to my soul that hurting is healing and apart of life. Les Brown has taught me that “its life”. That people will lie, hurt and treat me unfairly and that it’s my responsibility to keep pushing through the pain. The “hippies” told me to surrender to all of life’s happenings (the good, the bad & the ugly) and to simply “let it be”. The faithful/spiritualists suggests that I pray/meditate and to lean on God because he is the ultimate healer. But life itself has told me to let it hurt, to feel the pain and grow stronger from it. To learn from my hurt and essentially let it hurt because quite frankly I don’t have any other option. So, that’s what I am doing and to put it simply…it hurt to hurt. It hurts to know that you’ve allowed something, person or occasion into your aura and as a result this is the way you feel. It hurts to be that person hurting. To have to laugh, converse, perform/function and engage in human/social interaction all whilst hurting. There’s no escaping your pain/feelings and that’s because they’re very much valid. Nobody wants to hurt but the reality is we all do. And if we’re blessed to live many years than we’re going to keep getting hurt in cycles. Just as we’ll keep experiencing new levels of joy. Sometimes there is no cut & dry answer, but there are always lessons to be learned, strength to be gained and wisdom to be shared. Don’t stop and fold at hurt, don’t give your pain that pleasure. After all, what is life without experiences yet a life without experience is the only way to guarantee as little pain/hurt as possible? I guess what I’m trying to say is its ok to hurt regardless of how awful it feels it’s totally normal. So let it hurt when it hurts but value the lesson and don’t let it be in vain. In fact let nothing of this journey of life be in vain the good, the bad or the ugly.
“Sometimes the pain is just too much to bear. And it hurts like hell, that’s the way it is.”
- Aretha Franklin
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