Pain

Have you ever thought about how pain affects you? Any type of pain whether it's emotional or physical. How do you act after enduring pain? Physical pain may cause you to favor the injured area when performing any type of activities. In doing so you can neglect the area and not let it fully recover. Or you can work on that area so much that it's stronger than it was before the pain. You can heal and be just fine with proper care. In most cases you don't carry the effects of that type of pain for the next few years. Emotional pain is way different. You lose a loved one and you hurt forever. A kid gets hurt emotionally bc their dad leaves hurts forever. Your significant other breaks your heart and it might not hurt forever but it feels like it at the time. No matter the situation that type of pain stays with you and constantly bothers you. How do you get away from it? Surrounding yourself with friends just delays it. Thinking about something else just delays it. Trying to replace what you lost doesn't make it better. I've recently been dealing with pain from a relationship and after almost 32 years of living I've realized I have been closed since a relationship that ended almost 10 years ago. I don't need to say what caused it but I've carried that with me ever since. I never sat and thought about it but that has to be it. It's just weird how we carry emotional pain around for years and never know until you meet a situation that causes you to look inside yourself and say you should do something about it. The mind and inner workings of our brain can be as strong or as weak as we let it. You just have to find your own way of dealing with it. Don't let it consume you. Pray about it and realize you can always overcome it.