If "I am a student", what have I learned? Well... looking back at posts from four years ago, I have learned to close my heart. An open heart is vulnerable, it is ripe for wounding. Close it tight and let no one in - that's the safest course. Isn't it?
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Interesting. Not sure I agree but I do find I've done that at periods of my life and may be there now.
Yet, one of greatest gifts we can offer others is our love. A love with no conditions or expectations. I wonder sometimes if the pain is really the expectations we set. Not everyone will love me. That seems true in my life.
Now, allowing someone to love us places us in a vulnerable place, easily wounded. Not everyone will love me as I expect or want or need. It may be my task to accept they will love me only as they only know how.
Excellent insight, Monte. Expectations... I'm going to ponder this for a while. :)
Very nice composition Faye. While closing the heart may be the safest, it's also the road to loneliness. I've tried both, and seem to be stuck in the "safe" mode right now. Not all that enjoyable.
True, John. was reminded of the quote by C.S. Lewis: "To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.”
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