I’ve gotten some good feedback about stepping back and taking a deep breath and being extremely open and personal on such an open forum like this blog.
Oh, but be so careful about what you ask for in life. You just may get it. People who feel in this life are setting themselves up to really get hurt at times. You can’t feel the good without experiencing the bad, too. The harder you feel the good, the meaner the bad will feel. It just works that way.
But that’s the risk you take. And you don’t have to take that risk. I know a few people who ignore everything about their lives. They put off addressing what I would consider the important things in their life — personal relationships and growth — until things just fester and go past the point of no return. Then, they just move on, leaving hurt and ruin in their wake, and then they get a whole new set of friends or even families and do it all over again while the old set is left to clean up their mess. These people are hurt, damaged people, and you have to tread carefully around them. They’re fearful of intimacy – and I don’t mean sexual intimacy because sometimes they tend to confuse sex for love, but the closeness of, for instance, a friendship – and will lash out terribly because the fear makes them feel vulnerable and scared and threatened. The closer you get, the harder they lash out.
What does this have to do with feeling? And sharing our feelings and our life’s experience? We experience life through our feelings. And if we ignore them, or lie to ourselves about what we’re experiencing, nothing but hurt can come from it.
Let me repeat that: Nothing, and I mean nothing, but hurt can come from that.
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