I saw this on a tee-shirt at football camp when I was 15 and very impressionable. Pain doesn't have to be temporary if you don't want it to be, pride comes before a fall, and getting back up is a beautiful thing. I do not believe that there is anything inherently wrong with pain. My foot hurt tonight from just standing on my feet for too long today, I got scars all over my body for different injuries, and I have been burned badly a few times by the world (typically people in it).
Pride is a more complicated issue for me. To this day, it brings up copacetic tendencies. I am not quite certain what triggers it, but I have issues when someone insults something I am good at. I do not always take criticism well, but I still wanna here it. To top it off, it is a tight rope walk over two green pastures when you have pride. The greener grass could be humility or hubris. Today I am aiming for humility.
Falling down in life is easy to do. Any one of us could give up everything we have and try living under a bridge. I have respect for anyone who gets back up. Right now I am in intense emotional duress. The only commitment I have made to myself is to put down my proverbial shovel, stand up, and try to climb out of this emotional fox hole which was too big for me in the first place...
WITH LOVE.
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