Sometimes I am not angry

Sometimes I am not angry, I'm hurt, and there's a big difference.

You are strong but there are days you know that you’ve been broken beyond repairs and you can feel the hurt in the core of your being.

It might take years to realize how hurt you are by the words people speak but it takes even longer to realize how much their actions have hurt you.

Being hurt is not a function of the physical pain people cause you, sometimes you are just lying down, immobilized by the mental torture someone has inflicted on you.

The more you open up to loving people who don’t deserve to be loved, the more likely you are to be hurt irreparably by their actions.

Some times you just find yourself being full of hate and bitterness towards people who have done absolutely nothing wrong. You have been hurt but you refuse to acknowledge it.

Every pain gives a lesson

Every pain gives a lesson and every lesson changes a person.

We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons. 

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life. 

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.

God gave us pain to remind us we are alive, so we will learn to value the joys and beauty of the world.

People in pain are like the wandering minstrels of the Renaissance. Any occupied space becomes their court. If the story’s told often enough, perhaps the demons will become manifest. Made visible and mastered though words.