While psychological or emotional pain is special to us as human beings, there is a real danger of us becoming defined by it.
We are either like turtles carrying this pain on our back living weighed down tentative lives succumbing to depression or resigning ourselves to miserable lives.
Or we’re like porcupines, sharpening our pain into angry, bitter quills and lashing out at others.
Clearly neither is helpful to you or anyone else. What’s helpful is to understand it. Go to the root of the pain if you can, otherwise get some distance on it, put it in context, fix it into a time and place so it can’t move around.
We have to understand our pain, we have to, because ultimately we cannot control what we don’t understand.
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