Mea Culpa!

 ♪♫♪  Must the show go on?  ♪♫♪ 

(Pink Floyd - The Wall, image taken from web)

Among other weaknesses, we humans are born with a huge tendency to make terrible mistakes, inflicting pain on ourselves, and illogically pinning it on external sources. It is okay to make mistakes, we are all but humans, however it is the unwisely repetition in these mistakes that result in the pit of misery we dig for ourselves. None has the power to bring harm to us, unless we give them a free reign to rule our world. We are our own worst enemies! Yes, more often than not, this suffocating web turns out to be a design of our own making, as instead of taking charge, we allow the external sources to influence us greatly under conflicting circumstances, surrounding ourselves with negative energy!

 ♪♫♪  There must be some mistake, 

I didn't mean to let them, 

Take away my soul.  ♪♫♪ 

Once we establish and accept this vital fact, it gives an edge to the brain to process the information and feelings in a different perspective and put the heart in place where it deserves to be for being the culprit. When it comes to emotions and feelings, this intimate relation between the mind and heart for calling the shots is at eternal war. The heart wants what the heart wants, despite the constant warnings of the brain and the insistence to take charge, and it’s the poor soul that gets caught in the crossfire. Ha ha!! Yes it’s funny when I say it like that, because essentially heart’s only function is to pump oxygenated blood throughout the body to keep us breathing to stay alive. But it is what it is! I blame it on the heart nonetheless.

 ♪♫♪  Am I too old is it too late?  ♪♫♪ 

Regardless the intensity of the damage, no soul is beyond healing. The first step is to acknowledge the pain and finding the root cause for any wound. It is a painful process to retrace the steps, one after the other, to collect the pieces of how, what, when and where, for all that caused the damage. The key is, to process this information from a third person’s perspective to put the pieces together in the puzzle. It takes a great deal of effort to step outside the emotional shell of false sense of protection, and then to cut the life source that feeds the problem and let it grow. But it is probably the only effective way to pull it all out from the roots. Yes there will be a huge empty hole left behind, but we do what we have to do!

 ♪♫♪  Where has the feeling gone?  

Will I remember the songs?  ♪♫♪ 

For the harmless remains and the empty hole, Time is the best healer. It is generally said, that we are the product of the choices we make, and the said choices in any context create this cycle of life based on our various experiences. We stumble, we fall but then we get up stronger! We learn from it, developing more life skills to put in practice for future. And life goes on … Yes, been there done that before as well, so why share it now? Because a New Year is around the corner, and it feels better to put it on record! Year 2016 draws to a close, a wrap-up is in order …

 ♪♫♪  The show must go on!  ♪♫♪ 

(The lyrics and the image in this article are from the album The Wall by Pink Floyd)