Time Heals

I heard something today, which seemed relevant to things. Most folks know the saying "Time heals" and in some ways in most cases that can be true. Yet its far truer I think, that its not that time heals, its that life with all its distractions continues, and so the thing which had caused the wound, gets put further back in the mind and memory until its nowhere near as prominent. Some folk, have criticised me for dwelling on some things too much as they happen, and I could see their point. Yet I think that's part of what can cause it, as here alone dealing with all that I do, life doesn't continue or get smothered in distractions. Any wounds or hurts or hardships linger for the duration as nothing comes in to move life along.

I was also thinking on a slightly different vein but not altogether dissimilar, and I certainly don't mean to psyche speak here. But sometimes, I think life can be so painful that we want something bigger than the hurt we have to distract us from the pain or hurt that life is bringing. I set out to cause hurt to myself I believe in a destructive way a while ago, only it was destructive not just to myself. But, years before, when also in a pain issue of life I could not shift, I hurt myself physically and have scars all over my body where I did that. The scars are there as prominent as ever, yet the wounds of both the burns and the thing that caused the pain has healed with time, at least some. This time, I could not create more pain in my body than I already have, so, the devil uses whatever he can to drag us down. But it seems the same kind of scenario. That sometimes we self destruct because we hurt so badly, and in self destructing we have a new more prominent pain, that will lessen the initial hurt. Yet from experience at least I know that's not always the way. Often we are left with the combined hurt of whatever caused the initial thing, plus the grief we caused ourselves by self destructing. And at least in my own case, time doesn't heal either. As life doesn't move on very much. And it lingers on possibly for the duration. Crosses can be hard to bear. But to everything there is a season. |