GAINING WISDOM

TODAY'S QUOTE:
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything. - George C. Lichtenberg

That's a fact! It doesn't matter whether it's a slow dawning, or a sudden awakening; however you get to the starting line what happens next is always the same. You realize that some of the most important things you don't know are basic things about yourself. What you really want... what you truly feel... what you think and believe are mostly as yet undiscovered mysteries. Your mind is awhirl with hummingbird notions that won't stop their endless rotation. Your heart is full of pain and longing, with old tired feelings trying to contain new ones that are struggling mightily for life. And your soul echoes with the raging storms that occupy every last inch of internal space you possess.

It can't be ignored. It won't be silenced. It tangles and gets more demanding for a ceasefire daily in a war that mostly started when your back was turned. The only way to make it stop is to validate it in a way that requires your own personal growth. Find what hurts the most, figure out why, understand its value, and answer every question it poses. Then move to the next ache again and again until all of the major agony is treated and only random sore spots remain. You're scarred for life, but you no longer bleed. And each blemish is a badge of courage, earned by a valiant warrior who triumphed  even though they were walking wounded throughout the entire war.

Nobody can fix it for you. You may be a damsel in distress or a knight without a clue, but joining forces isn't the answer. Then you're both doomed to deal with twice the issues when the one's each of you possess were already too much to handle. Going to stand beside someone who's struggling in quicksand will only trap you both. You have to do the work yourself. Any true healing revolves around finding enough answers about who you really are to prevent you from being simply a reflection of who someone else needs you to be. God bless the battle that makes you whole. Think about it... let it ride... then decide!!!