Living Life, Not Letting Life Live You

For some (including myself), this is a hard concept to grasp, but a very important one.

I'm going to dive right into this - emotional pain really sucks. It can easily be the most damaging and most devastating issue for people to deal with. I think I can safely say that every one of us carries around some sort of emotional scars of some sort.

Unfortunately, many of us take the emotional scars that we incur and turn them into something much, much more.

I recall a time when I was younger when I was playing football on the playground at the elementary school. Anyone that knew the Pocahontas Area Elementary School playground knows it was asphalt covered with those little pea rocks everywhere, and that tended to make some fun times of sliding all over the place. Anyway, during one particular game of football I slipped on the rocks and gashed my knee open pretty hard core. Little pea rocks were lodged inside of my knee, and it eventually created a huge scar on my knee cap.

I still have that scar today on my knee, but can I still move my knee, and does it still function? Yes.

Emotional pain is a bit different, because it doesn't directly affect some physical part of our bodies like an arm, a leg, chest, back, or anything else for that matter. Regardless, many people tend to take that emotional scar that they incur and greatly exaggerate it, often times using it as a crutch or an excuse.

-Someone had a broken heart, and now they can't open up to the opposite sex because they're afraid of getting hurt.

-Someone's family was involved in drugs or alcohol, so now they're standoffish and on guard constantly.

-Someone was cheated on, now they have trust issues regarding the opposite sex.

Those are just a couple examples I could think up off the top of my head.

Would you let one small scar on your arm render you immobile? Would you let one giant scar on your chest render you immobile? Why would you let an emotional scar render you immobile?

People have way too much good to give to the world. People have too much awesome stuff to share with people - their personalities, their stories, their gifts, talents, wisdom, advice, and I could go on all day about everything else. So live your life! Make it the most incredible experience you can make it - you only have one shot at it. Don't let it live you - don't let the negativity encompass you or let fear control your life. Don't let a past experience that was scary or traumatic keep you from living the rest of your life in a fun, positive, uplifting way.

Good always triumphs evil, and love never fails, so quit letting prior bad experiences hold you back from having new, amazing ones!


Maybe that was redundant, but I don't really care, because this is really important to me, and hopefully it is to you too


-Bert-