Monday, August 25, 2014

The Ramblings of Living a Life Exposed

Living life exposed to the world can often lead to pain and suffering. Pain from breathing in so deeply of everything the world has to offer, and suffering from knowing that even though all of it is beautiful and fruitful you can't have it all. 
An exposed life is excruciatingly honest because it reveals not only who you are, but because you present the truest form of yourself to the world you receive the truest reactions. 

You're forever fragile until you choose to harden, but hardening is nothing more than developing a callus. It's all dancing and laughter until the blister arrives. Afterwards you live with the pain of that blister. You tiptoe around to avoid irritating it, or you leap in like a war weary medic only to rip it asunder. How you handle it is up to you, but afterwards the callus is there to protect you from that pain again. Not that you won't try. God knows you have plenty of exposed life left without a callus. 

An exposed life is filled with ups and downs, joy and sorrow, thrills and spills, love and loss, but in the end it is never boring. 

The biggest thing to remember is to keep moving for if you stop so does your life. We're all like walking plants eternally growing branches. If we sit then those branches reach into the ground where we are, and comfortably root us into our spot. However, if we keep moving those branches wrap around us, and stretch out making us bigger than we ever imagined. Keep branching out. Keep moving. Help others do the same.


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