There are 5 entries related to the tag “pain”
What the heart might want, doesn't make it right
I don't have an answer for what the heart needs. I only know that the heart (and to be perfectly clear, one using their "heart" is merely another way of saying one's emotions and feelings) is an easily misguided and confused beacon of guidance. Yet we are all guided by ...
I learned to laugh through my tears
Happiness should be easy. Laughing and enjoying life should be the simplest thing in the world, especially when there are so many things to be thankful for. Unfortunately the longer you live, the more truth you learn about people and the world, which squelches all the light and drains the ...
What is forgiveness?
It doesn't matter what you believe — what creed, faith, religion, lack of religion — forgiveness is an act we all, at one point in our lives, wil share in (either by nesting resentment or releasing pain). There are levels of what forgiveness means and the effort it takes to ...
It takes a lifetime to build, and a day to destroy
There we are, in our tiny boxes on a hilliside, putting ourselves into other little boxes. Segmenting our lives. Boxes. Dividers. Shields. Protection. We take what we know of the world, our pasts, our pain, and turn it into the truth. The truth of love. The truth of family. ...