Baggage

Perspective and the cages we build or escape from.

The uneasy alliance of pain and empathy building is the high wire for emotional trauma or growth. No life is without the negative, or the positive its just seeing the positive and acknowledging the negative. When I head into choppy water I know to bring my ship about face. The waves that are coming head straight into them and they won’t capsize you.  I can’t always be ready, but tough times are about growth. Hopefully you don’t have too many bad times, and remember to breathe. Be proud to have survived so long to have these stories and know the danger signs up ahead that’s wisdom. Cherish it respect it, and never feel above the negative it will always be waiting around a blind corner. Don’t wade in the tide pools of grief for too long. Every day your being shaped by the world and your choice of reaction. Also watch out for spreading misery, trauma usually begets trauma. Maybe someone hurt you but that doesn’t give anyone the right to spread it. Recognize you can do a lot of harm, be a safe harbor for others. Building your empathy and not victim shaming is a powerful tool. Find ways to connect when you can, its easy to judge it’s easy to condemn it takes strength to grow above these reactions. Fight against the wall of doubt, and instead of feeling trapped, feel the anxiety as excitement. Life is full of wonder find that joy, and escape those self made prisons of baggage we are all trying to drop and grab onto happiness when you can.