PAIN CYCLE.

"Pain always takes people on a journey, and the journey is not linear. It's a cycle." — AFL

A poet I love once wrote, "The thing about pain is that it doesn't last forever. It kills you right now, but with time, it gets better."

Now, that "gets better" occurs in two ways:

1. You heal from the pain and move on.

2. You sweep the pain under the carpet, and it becomes like a recurring decimal in your life, triggered over and over again (which is very likely).

You see that ignored pain? The one swept under the carpet, the one avoided? It forms a cycle. No wonder we become the very thing we hated. The pain that leads to hate will, in turn, lead us into it.

So we end up trapped in an unending skit show because we ignored the pain when we should have embraced and healed from it.

Dearest reader, pain and trauma lead to a kind of rage or anger. If this anger comes from understanding, then it's valid, but if not, you might end up playing the script in your own way—because patterns are stronger than you.

To have survived something terrible and still not healed is to be physically out of Egypt and mentally still there. And it does you no good to be physically out of Egypt and mentally still there.

@favvy_Okwans🖤.