Thinking Out Loud

Sometimes, when things happen, sometimes I can pinpoint what I’m feeling — be it a general sense of it or a very clear, no doubt about it knowing. I strive to be more practiced in pinpointing what I, personally, am learning— not the immediate surface response of, “Well, I know never to do that again.” But some deeper digging that could, hopefully, lead to personal clarity and, hopefully, activate some healing. Leaving it at, “Well, I know never to do that again” might be enough in some situations. But it can also just be me putting up an emotional wall against something or someone— a wall quickly erected because of, let’s say, hurt. And now a wall keeping in hurt and keeping out the potential for healing. I have to work at it — work at this looking deeper at what I’m learning—because when I’m hurt, it’s easy to put up the walls.