"Before I built a wall I'd ask to know, what I was walling in or walling out?" - Robert Frost
When you ask people about walls and what they are good at, they will usually answer somewhere along the lines of, "They are good at keeping things out."
But if you ask what else they are good for doing, you wouldn't believe the dead silence that would come your way.
"Hmmmm...I don't know!" Don't worry I'll give it to you. As good as walls are for keeping things out they also do a great job of trapping things "in."
This is where we get into trouble. We get into a ton of trouble because whenever we start hurting in life we build our walls higher and higher to protect ourselves.
And unfortunately, when you are trying to keep out the negative, you are also keeping in the positive. Remember those gifts you've been given? They never get to come out to play. They stay trapped inside because you have created a bit of a prison for yourself.
It gets worse. Since you didn't build any doors...because why would you ever want to give the negative emotions a weak spot in the wall to exploit, you've failed to create any form of fire escape.
And as life would have it, it loves to shoot a fiery arrow into your village and start up something good. I think you know where this is going - no fire escape, a fire in the village, and a whole lot of hay laying around - trouble. In fact, chaos arrives when something like that happens and more often than not, everything burns to the ground.
Walls are pretty bad for you. They can tear you apart.
When you shut yourself off from experience life in its fullest and everything that the world has to offer you aren't really living. You're just having an experience of surviving. You're doing whatever it takes to get by but not really out there in the world thriving.
The very walls that you think are protecting you are actually hurting you. They are trapping everything positive inside of you and making you numb. The only way is to let everything out and to experience life in its fullest.
They will never come out when you are living safe inside of your comfort zone.
That's just the reality. You have to tear down the walls that you think are protecting you and be willing to experience the open fields where everything and anything is possible.
Scary? Yes of course. But 10 times out of 10 I would rather be on the field of life living than stuck in my own mental prison dying.
Take a chance and tear down the walls.
When you ask people about walls and what they are good at, they will usually answer somewhere along the lines of, "They are good at keeping things out."
But if you ask what else they are good for doing, you wouldn't believe the dead silence that would come your way.
"Hmmmm...I don't know!" Don't worry I'll give it to you. As good as walls are for keeping things out they also do a great job of trapping things "in."
This is where we get into trouble. We get into a ton of trouble because whenever we start hurting in life we build our walls higher and higher to protect ourselves.
And unfortunately, when you are trying to keep out the negative, you are also keeping in the positive. Remember those gifts you've been given? They never get to come out to play. They stay trapped inside because you have created a bit of a prison for yourself.
It gets worse. Since you didn't build any doors...because why would you ever want to give the negative emotions a weak spot in the wall to exploit, you've failed to create any form of fire escape.
And as life would have it, it loves to shoot a fiery arrow into your village and start up something good. I think you know where this is going - no fire escape, a fire in the village, and a whole lot of hay laying around - trouble. In fact, chaos arrives when something like that happens and more often than not, everything burns to the ground.
Walls are pretty bad for you. They can tear you apart.
When you shut yourself off from experience life in its fullest and everything that the world has to offer you aren't really living. You're just having an experience of surviving. You're doing whatever it takes to get by but not really out there in the world thriving.
The very walls that you think are protecting you are actually hurting you. They are trapping everything positive inside of you and making you numb. The only way is to let everything out and to experience life in its fullest.
They will never come out when you are living safe inside of your comfort zone.
That's just the reality. You have to tear down the walls that you think are protecting you and be willing to experience the open fields where everything and anything is possible.
Scary? Yes of course. But 10 times out of 10 I would rather be on the field of life living than stuck in my own mental prison dying.
Take a chance and tear down the walls.
About the Author:
Evan Sanders is a professional life coach at AYKME coaching. Dive into these great Great Quotes On Happiness or these Quotes On Having Patience to get some motivation to move forward!
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