Kintsugi

The world is ever-changing, and everyone in it is capable of healing. Such is what I learned over the months since I walked away from a turmoil of emotions caused by a connection that is not sure and leading nowhere. I once wrote (and still believe today) that we can only make sense of a situation once we are out of it.

A shared bubble is sacred to pop; we often believe staying inside is the best for us. But we are never always safe. Often bursting can be a result of one tripping.

The lesson is with us wherever we go. And when we are finally ready to head out, we are a step closer to realizing we are feeding our anxiety. The outside world is calling us.

But it’s not linear—healing, I meant. More often than we want, we can be back and trapped inside the same headspace again.

For some, it only takes a single, unintentional message from the other person to recall again how the exchange used to send us up in space—it’s a different dimension the circumstance can take us. It can also be a moment where you sit next to each other again, as required by the instance.

Forgive your tendency to get caught up in your emotions easily. More than anything, forgive your old versions confusing the one you have now.

The pieces that make up you now are the same as before, only that you know better now (with traces of gold, you may say).