Wounded or Wise Journal Prompt
Added 2025-01-24 16:00:06 +0000 UTCThe most interesting people to me are the scarred and broken. The people who defied the odds, and instead of becoming wounded they became wise. I heard that said once, and it resonated with me, wounded or wise you decide. It is so easy when we are having a hard time to get lost in negativity. No one enjoys feeling bad, and lately, it seems we hate even the slightest discomfort. As a testament to this, we have AC, Central heat, Heated seats, Alexa, medications for days, and the list goes on and on. We try to squash any sensation that brings unease and chase the small feel-goods no matter how fleeting they are. As I travel down my yoga journey I have been waking up to the idea that nothing is really good or bad because they both exist on the same spectrum. Discomfort comes, pleasure comes and they rotate back and forth, never really settling for long. You can never experience one sensation without the knowledge of its twin. The opposites (light/dark, good/evil, pain/pleasure, cold/hot) depend on each other in order to exist, and placing feelings of like or dislike on them is irrelevant and causes problems. Instead, if we try to approach every “problem” as a gift to be able to grow. Then we will see how necessary for us the hard stuff has been. We must also learn to be more present and enjoy the good times fully without guilt. To accept the light and dark sides as one without needing to fix it or have feelings about it.
