When the Agony Softens
--------------------------------- It appears at times as if life is too much to bear. A seemingly endless loop of suffering. Both physical and psychological. We ask ourselves how we would feel if we were "better". We try so hard to escape that agony and trauma that so much of us self impose on our own self involved ecosystem. Yet, we somehow still move forward and carry those little burdens with us on the regular. Time moves on, or so we think, and the agony seems to soften. But only if we let it in. Fully letting in the suffering without resisting it. Just letting it run its course. It comes and it goes, yet some us keep it ALIVE by trying to push it, shove it or repress it in so many methods and escapes. "we love these bandaids that cover up these moments of pain, but what happens when we can just rip those bandaids right off and simply FEEL that pain?" Isn't this agony we have in our lives such an indicator for what it means to be alive? This pain can lea...