Expire Date
Read poetry when you are on the early stage of healing process; which is understanding your own pain and sadness, and giving it a solid ground. Poetry is good at giving a voice to what you can't say, and giving a space for everything you can't show. It made you feel less alone.
But ditch it when you are already gaining the strength that you need to get back up. Go travel instead. Explore new things, try new food, learn new culture, meet new people, and talk to strangers.
Be open with vulnerability, and yes, be alone. It will feel lonely for sure, to be alone somewhere else while aching, and you will need that. That loneliness will make you squirm and your whole body will beg you to find someone, or even just something, to distract you and make you feel less alone. Your body and mind will plead you to do something.
And that's exactly why you won't.
You will just sit calmly with yourself, manage your breath, and let whatever your mind screams at you or your heart tries to make you feel, you will just sit still there, until they are tired and learn how to behave with you.
And that's how you tame your own beast and train it how to sit calmly with you.
That's how you train your mind and heart, and come back stronger than before. To own your mistakes, your sadness, your pain, and let them shape you into a much better person.
That's how you really heal; to acknowledge what you feel, to accept the validity of your emotions, to know that you are in control of whatever you think or feel and to really act on changing your circumstance.
And finally, to put an expire date on your past experiences.
- Sky, March 2018