Walk it Off

I think that if we are ever going to be emotionalyl stable we've got to accept a pretty inportant fact. Life is painful. Unlike the Dread Pirate Roberts who said "Life IS pain princess, anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something," I think we can more or less enjoy life but we are going to have to pay attention to pain sometimes. Why? Is it because it's "God's Megaphopne" as C.S. Lewis calls it? Is it becuase it helps us grow? Well yes as a matter of fact it is those thigns. But it's also becuase sometimes adressing the pain is the best way to get through it.

In sports if you ever get nailed in the leg but you didn't actually break anything you are supposed to just walk it off. The fastest cure for tight and cramped muscles is to work them out a little bit. I've never seen a trainer tell anyone..."hey just lie there holding your leg and crying, it'll help." (You DO sometimes here them say "lie still," but that's the other half of this two-blog mini-sries)

Some pains are cold-hard realities. You got dumped, you experenced a death in the family, the Buckeyes somehow lost a game.* There is no denying or changing these things, and there is no way to compensate or make up for it. Once these tragedies have happened they are a permanant part of your life that still needs to be lived.**
I think the best way to make this stop hurting faster is to walk it off by exploring the pain and planning out effective ways to accomidate the change. Some issues need to be visited more than once so we can get a grasp of their magnitute and their impact. It's not about dwelling on it, and it's not about ignoring the pain, it's about feeling it hard and moving on.


*The SEC is full of cheaters
**Sometimes you can get your girlfriend back if you call her up desperately the minute her plane lands.