Do y'all feel PAIN?

[lost_illusion19]

Pain

Does pain turn people away
from their God? If so, how?
Pain can turn anyone away
from just about anything. Pain is
capable of causing you to do
things you would never consider
doing, such as blaming God for
your unhappiness.

Pain . . . such a simple word,
but so packed with meaning. I
have come to learn that pain is
the strongest emotion one can feel. Unlike every other emotion,
it’s the only one every human
being is guaranteed to feel at
some point in their life, and there
is no upside to pain, no positive
aspect that can make you look at
it from a different perspective . . .
there’s only the overwhelming
sensation of pain itself. Lately
I’ve become very well acquainted
with pain—the ache has become
nearly unbearable. Sometimes
when I’m alone, which is more
often than not as of recently, I
find myself trying to decide which
type of pain is worse. The answer
isn’t as simple as I thought it
would be. The slow and steady- aching pain, the type of pain that
comes when you’ve been hurt
repeatedly by the same person,
yet here you are, here I am,
allowing the pain to continue . . .
it never ends.
Only in those rare moments
when he pulls me to his chest and
makes promises that he never
seems able to keep does the pain
disappear. Just as I get used to
the freedom, my freedom from my
self-inflicted pain, it returns with
another blow. I have decided that the hot,
burning, inescapable pain is the
worst. This pain comes when you
finally begin to relax, you finally
breathe, thinking that some issue
is yesterday’s problem, when in
fact it’s today’s problem,
tomorrow’s problem, and the
problem of every day after that.
This pain comes when you pour
everything into something, into
someone, and they betray you so
completely—so seemingly on a
whim—that the pain crushes you
and you feel as if you’re barely
breathing, barely holding on to
that small fraction of whatever is
left inside of you begging you to go on, to not give up.

[Imduck]

@lost_illusion19 "Wound is the place where the light enters"-Rumi
Without them we are very much lacking a soul :)