May 03, 2016 6:11:02pm
May 03, 2016 6:11:02pm
Sometimes, I think, we let the pain we feel from whatever suffering and hardship we have endured, become a part of our identities, such that healing this pain almost seems like it will diminish who we are.
We hold onto our pain because it is so personal, and so defining, that we treat it as precious.
But bruises are not birthmarks.
Healing from a painful experience does not erase the experience from our histories; what you have been through, you have been through; but if you do not overcome the pain, then it is not something you have been through; it is something you are insisting to carry with you far beyond the experience itself, unnecessarily.
Holding onto pain is a defeat, not a preservation of your identity.
Sometimes, I think, we let the pain we feel from whatever suffering and hardship we have endured, become a part of our identities, such that healing this pain almost seems like it will diminish who we are.
We hold onto our pain because it is so personal, and so defining, that we treat it as precious.
But bruises are not birthmarks.
Healing from a painful experience does not erase the experience from our histories; what you have been through, you have been through; but if you do not overcome the pain, then it is not something you have been through; it is something you are insisting to carry with you far beyond the experience itself, unnecessarily.
Holding onto pain is a defeat, not a preservation of your identity.