Just when you think you're getting it sorted out...you trip over your own shoelaces. It hurts, it's frustrating, it's embarrassing...but I suppose that's how we all learn. Perhaps the trip is the learning check point. A chance to realize you missed a step, and an adjustment is needed.
Perhaps the trip is a gift... This trip would show me exactly where I am on my learning journey. It hurt as bad as scraped knees or rug burn. I managed to stir up some old uncomfortable emotions. Naturally it involved as my friend Samantha calls it, the one person that comes along and shakes you to the core.
Now what? Now comes the hard part, the uncomfortable period of healing. When the wound is sensitive and it's human nature to do anything to protect it. The danger is the desire to continue protecting it even once it has healed. That said, when you trip...you have a choice, sit there and feel the pain, or get back up and make an adjustment, and keep on walking...there will always be a hand to help you up. Reach for it when you need it, and get back on your feet.
"Shake it out...it's hard to dance with a devil on your back, so shake him off...it's always darkest before the dawn" ~ Shake it Out, Florence +the Machine
sometimes one ending can become the greatest beginning....you just don't know it yet. :)
ReplyDeleteThank you :). That's the best part in life...you just never know what's around the corner, cheers to optimism and open hearts,
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