Break me down.

Walls--built for a sense of security. When houses are built, the bricks of their walls are placed layer by layer until they form a wall. The walls are built to keep the weather out or other things that could put someone at risk or cause some kind of discomfort.


"What are you wearing?!" Theres one brick. "Sorry, I just don't feel that way about you." Another brick. Hearing people talk rudely about you as if your not there... yet another brick to the forever-growing wall. This wall keeps us from feeling the heartache we had experienced once before and never want to feel again. This wall, is something we build to make us feel better, to help us sleep at night. But this wall can do the complete opposite. It can weaken us. Between the layers of our walls, we seal in our emotions, our confidence, and the very substance that makes us, us. And to lose yourself to 'them' would be the biggest loss ever.


In the past, when I have let people in they've done nothing but hurt me. The one time that I needed to let someone in, I didn't. They say hindsight is 20/20. That couldn't be more true. If I would have known then what I know now, it would have been a a whole different ballgame. But hey, thats part of life. From now on I've decided I'm bulldozing these walls of mine an embracing vulnerability. After all, the best part of life is experience. You learn from it :)

"We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.” -Eleanor Roosevelt