A survivor- self interpretation

A Survivor- self interpretation

You know, at the end of the day we are all survivors. Survivors of pain, survivors of loss- really of many things this life brings us; some that are completely unexpected and in the moment of it being present can be extremely intense and unforgiving (at the time) or completely de-stabilizing to that of which physically brings you to the ground, in tears, on your knees feeling helpless, shocked, lost all control.

But, we always get up. It’s part of our nature. And in time, we can always overcome it- if we choose to.

I believe we are all much stronger than we think we are. We just need to internalize our feelings in order to understand them enough to overcome them; whatever the reason for those feelings is doesn’t matter.

We all have our negatives and positives- our insecurities and things that we like about ourselves, and they will probably stay with us for life or change as we get older- but it is how we choose to think and act on them that make a difference. We can choose to be pessimistic, and un-forgiving. We can choose to clutter the ‘would be scenario’ with our opinions and let our feelings take over. We can also choose that it is just simply too painful to find the positive, but there always is one.

Sometimes we just need to change the way that we think of it and when we can do that, we can survive it.

When I was young, I remember feeling things like; this is too hard, why does it hurt so bad, why would this happen? But, things do happen that are out of our control, things that we don’t expect or never would have asked for. In the moment, that moment where the true pain is present, allow it to be present but in time think of how that experience can be turned into something (whichever scale of ‘big’ or ‘small’) that can better you as a person, what did you learn, what can you take from it instead of just focusing on the pain from it.

At the end of the day, everyone has a story that will break your heart. The true beauty in it is how they overcome it.