Almost Birthday Musings . . .
- by L.A. Law
- Posted on March 11, 2017
I don’t like to talk about my pain and suffering. That’s why I have taken a hiatus to my blog writing. Pain and suffering is a very private affair. I don’t like sharing it. It’s embarrassing, it’s revealing, it displays the most vulnerable self. When I tried writing about it and read it back to myself, it sounded depressing, pathetic. The façade I like hiding behind is as inherited as my herniated disk, just from the other side of the family, the side that doesn’t talk, doesn’t share anything. We keep everything under lock and key and that is to our detriment. Being honest with your feelings is freeing. My tongue has found a new found freedom with speaking its’ mind and I don’t know if I can keep it under wraps any longer. And maybe I shouldn’t, maybe no one should. Keeping everything wrapped up tight inside you doesn’t do you or anyone else any good. And really, that is what this blog was all about from the beginning – to practice speaking my mind and my heart. So pain sucks and we probably all know that. I naively thought I could avoid such pain and suffering by sheer will. I thought I might be young and youthful forever. Now I realize that it is not only a natural course, but something we get through to the other side. Not something to be avoided, like youth might have us believe, but something to add to our repertoire of accomplishments, to remind us of our strength.
Related
I don’t like to talk about my pain and suffering. That’s why I have taken a hiatus to my blog writing. Pain and suffering is a very private affair. I don’t like sharing it. It’s embarrassing, it’s revealing, it displays the most vulnerable self. When I tried writing about it and read it back to…