You Say Goodbye, I Say Hello

Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) by Green Day is playing and this song always makes me sad. I don’t think I could have my heart pulled in any more directions than it’s already going. I’ve said my goodbye’s and I’m embarking on my hello’s yet the heart is always a flutter of emotion and getting it to settle down is never easy. Trying to forget the past is next to impossible especially when it’s opening up on the future. Protecting yourself all  the while wanting to be as open and receptive as possible is a tough job and it’s getting tougher the deeper and deeper as I get into this. I’m finding out that the older I get e harder relationships are becoming. On the plus side though the payoffs are sweeter and in the end I think, no, I know, I’ll be happy. If my heart would just settle down for a minute and let me have some peace I would  appreciate it right now

Keeping Your Heart Together

Sometimes people just need to leave well enough alone. Life has an uncanny ability to proceed on as normal. No matter what happens it just keeps going. Pretty neat how it does that, seems to work with our ability to heal ourselves. We can do this in both body and mind. Just like a broken bone will heal so will a broken heart. Likewise, just like an oncoming rain storm will make a healed broken bone ache. An unexpected greeting from a former love will make a healed broken heart ache just as well. Leads me back to people needing to leave well enough alone. Old wounds never fully heal and always can be opened up if exposed to the right elements. No matter how we protect ourselves these things have a way of popping up out of the blue. There’s always someone who can get to us, always. Healed or not, we are sensitive somewhere and when it hits, it hurts. Now if people would just not provoke us we would be better off, but once again we don’t live in a perfect world and shielding ourselves from these “attacks” is never easy.