Cowboy up!

OK, so it's time to talk about walls again. Why do we build the stupid things anyway? Oh, that's right-it's to protect us, to keep us from getting hurt. Hmmm, so now that your life is in this nice little safety bubble I have one question, are you happy? No I think not, you may be content or comfortable but you are not truly happy. I say that because the very thing you are longing for is the very thing that you are keeping at arms length, outside your walls. You simply cannot have it both ways. Either you want to live, love and be happy or you want to remain inside your safety bubble. Black & white-right there it is. Here's what's going to happen, while everyone else is out chasing their dreams you will one day find yourself at the end of your rainbow with nowhere to go and no pot of gold. We think that we are protecting ourselves from hurt when in reality we are just creating more in the long run. In essence, we take the waterfall of emotion the hurt created and dam it up and let it trickle out over a long period of time just enough to keep the dam from busting. So in doing so the pain never really goes away because we didn't heal, forgive and move on. Instead we hide our pitiful little selves behind walls. If you've been hurt and you have built a wall, what happens when the next person comes along? Do you keep them on the outside making them pay the price for the hurt someone else caused? I had a good friend beside me as I was tearing down my last remaining walls a few years back so I can say this with experience and the utmost confidence; the only true happiness you will ever find will be when you have no more walls to hide behind. When you are completely exposed, naked before the world open and ready for whatever may come your way. Life hurts, love hurts, but you can not quit living just because you get hurt. It truly is better to have loved and failed than to never have loved at all. Think of how great it is to have someone to share everything with, that's what we all long for, that's the reason you built your wall because you lost this very thing. Quit hiding behind walls, go after what makes you happy. A cowboy rides not worried about the fall, get up-dust yourself off and try it again. Cowboy up!