“I am a shadow spectrum of what I was, the trace of the distance that marked my escape and I still do not understand the purpose of my life. Who brought us here?
The years pass and change with the wind, change according to my events, and when I need it most, I pray that what I am told is true, I cling to the sign, to the guide, to the pillars that support my weight, without realizing it until I hit them on the hard and cold ground.
- Mornings become giant and night eternal.
- I’d like to have the energy of a comet.
- Although I’ve already adapted to its sle.
- Why does fate make us suffer?Maybe I should protect myself.
- But my selfishness prevents me.
- I need to wrap myself in someone else’s arms.
- Warm myself to a heartbeat and feel the wind in the breath of a friendly soul.
The pain, I learned that I had to avoid it, run away, deny it, however she comes back stronger, never leaves me and always catches me.
Bitter pain, I don’t want it, leave me and go
Bitter pain, why are you hugging me so tightly?
They taught me not to think about it, they taught me to always look for a drug, they taught me to take medications, ointments and use a thousand bandages, they told me to ignore it, so I could focus my attention on other things. that make me flee from his presence, how does the devil flee from the cross?
At certain times in our lives, perhaps together, this internal dialogue of a suffering person may seem familiar, whether physical or psychological pain, our culture teaches us to escape from him, to seek a cure at the expense of what is necessary.
Sometimes we abuse drugs and drugs that are remedies, not patches that cover up what scares us ?.
Modern society cannot bear pain; it’s understood as open, and that’s where the big problem begins. We distort it and want to turn it into an enemy, from which we must flee, and not understand it as unpleasant, but it is natural.
Some physical problems have a solution, others do not; in many cases, drugs are needed, but people can become addicted and, in some cases, the effects of drugs do more harm than what hurts us.
But what about psychological problems? The pain of the soul, what to do with them?In the face of emotional discomfort, there is no pill, therapy or remedy to relieve it What do we do?We run away and try to think less about it or avoid it even more, until the thoughts reappear stronger.
To cope with pain, we can choose to escape, so modern therapies call “experimental avoidance,” but this can make our pain chronic, adding other aspects such as sadness, anguish, bitterness, and despair.
If it doesn’t work, what can we do to deal with the pain?Think of it as a natural thing, something we don’t need to escape from, something that’s just part of life.
It is another way of looking at pain, looking it in the eye, without making a value judgment, observing it, understanding what it is like, without thinking, without words, without emotions, just by looking at it and learning; without avoiding, without running away, disarming it little by little, without controlling it.
Basically, we must learn that pain is just pain and that its relief simply depends on how we decide to deal with it: run away and make it chronic and harmful, or understand that it is inevitably part of life.
Pain appears as tides come and go. We must continue to live with her, not by submission, not out of helplessness, but by acceptance, actively fighting for our lives.
To overcome it, you don’t have to escape from yourself or him, but to learn how to manage both. And while in many cases it is difficult, in the face of pain, we can also learn to live, to enjoy the present moment and other good things. that life gives us.
“With pain, in the end, I learned that even though I didn’t love her at first, did she train me as a person and make me grow up?
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