Words, wounds and scars

Words can hurt like a knife, stabbing our memory and creating a wound that takes time to completely heal. And when it’s finally healed, it leaves a scar in our memory. Sometimes you can still feel the pain when you look at this scar, but over time, you manage to feel less and make it into just a bad memory.

But it’s harder when we are young…

Being a sensitive person is hard because when you are young, you’re still raw and don’t really know how to manage your own personality traits unless you have someone to teach you (I hope you do). Otherwise, you’ll learn through practice, just as with almost everything in life. Well, emotions are rarely something people take into account, especially when you’re a teenager. After all, everything is just hormones, and you are being dramatic, right?!

Being a sensitive teenage girl full of hormones changing all the time with your brain still in development, means that most times words are going to take place in your brain for hours and hours and make you ponder the level of truthfulness that one carries. But how can we know when we are still knowing ourselves?

How come a teenager must be so careful with words, but adults can come with free passes of emotional irresponsibility when using them with a younger person?

And so we grow up…

But everyone grows up, right? Then, we get the option of treating these scars to make them less painful. We get the chance to manage how this scar will affect our lives. If we’re going to let them be just a bad memory that helped us learn how to deal with our emotional level of exposition. Or let them build a room in our mind, shaping who we are becoming.

In summary, that is a resume of how I see it. Have you ever thought about it? Have you ever wondered if you have left me wounds? And if so, how many? Have you ever wondered how many actual scars I carry were made by you?  Are you going to help me draw stars around them and turn them into a growth mark, or at least just a blurry bad memory?