Unscripted Emotions

Bruises

 Bruises. They fade away on the skin,but they never fade away in our hearts or in our minds. Under the surface lays all the scars, all the bruises that build us as human beings. Throughout our entire lives we proceed to get injuries. Injuries from losing a loved one, from losing a relationship with someone you still love, to simple things like a favorite toy that broke when were children. The wounds that hurt the most are those that are inflicted on us by emotional trauma. 

While our wounds may heal with time, they never go away. Scars remain, bruises never fade. It might be easy to get along in life for a little while, but when the scars you hold are still too large to forget, they flare up. The pain returns and it feels as though the wounds you thought had healed burst back open with no warning. That's when you search and search for an easy way out. Anything you can find that may possibly numb the pain and the thoughts that gather in your mind, but nothing works. So, you decide to give into the pain and allow yourself to sink down a hole that you never dreamed you'd go down again. You can feel the darkness surrounding you and your natural instinct is to allow it to consume. Every part of you. You decide to give up fighting. What is the point when the pain keeps returning every time you finally think you have moved forward? You feel as though you'll never truly be happy, that maybe happiness was just not meant for you. You think, the universe has given up on me, so why shouldn't I give up on myself?

One day, you're sitting alone in the never ending darkness that has engulfed your entire being, when suddenly a light shines through. You gaze up and you wonder what the light is and how it managed to find someone like whom allowed themselves to sink so low. You wonder to yourself if it's worth going into the light to try again when the light has failed you so many times before. A sudden burst of anger erupts inside of you. Your body trembles and you begin to question how you could let the darkness swallow you up. This is not the way you wanted to end your story! A small bit of strength within you decides to head toward the light. 

Once you decide to fight, you tell yourself to never allow the scars, bruises, and darkness to swallow you whole again. But you can't help wonder where the light came from to begin with, where your sudden strength to fight came from. A hand reaches toward you and to your surprise, you take it. It pulls out of the darkness and into the light and when you look up to see what what it was that saved you, you see a human being with a large smile on their face. This human being gives you the strength to move forward and gives you a new way to look at life. Suddenly, you want to fight for not only yourself, but for the one whom saved you from the darkness. This guardian angel seemed to find you at the right time and give you the reason to fight and move forward. This other human being has become your light whenever you feel darkness and they came at the right time to set you free.