Currently Playing:
Bell x1-I’ll See Your Heart and I’ll Raise You Mine.
I caught them play poker and I think it was the devil who said:
"I’ll see your heart and I’ll raise you mine"
I’ve been thinking about some good friends of mine who are going through a difficult time right now, and the only thing I can think of is an excerpt from a relatively long entry of mine some time back:
They say
the mind is a dangerous thing, but let me tell you something about the human
heart. No matter how hard or cold or unfeeling it is, the human heart can only
take so much before it starts dying. It is capable of having the biggest
capacity for hurt to fill in.
Take a
human heart, pump it up with hope, and then promptly deflate it. You will find
that the heart is resilient; it can take the beating and it would still have
some room for hope to enter after each and every puncture inflicted on it.
But just
how much can it take before we reach the level of “the blunting of human
emotions”, as Jewish writer Viktor E. Frankl put it? Just how much can the
human heart take before it starts giving out and leaving us indifferent and
numb? Just how many more punctures can it withstand before we find that it’s
been slowly shredding all this while? Just how much further do we have to go to
eventually discover that in the end, the human heart has been reduced to
function as an organ alone and that it has no other purpose than to sustain the
living human being? We’re left with a person who, as that line in a Jewel song
goes, is “half-alive but mostly dead”.
The human
heart may be the most resilient, but it is also the most fragile.
Honestly, that is all I can think of at this point.
Don’t give your heart to just anyone.
To those who are on my mind right now, I wish I could wish all the pain away for you. I wish I could do more, but just how much can you do to fix such delicate affairs of the heart?
I’m no hero.
It doesn’t matter though. I will still be here.
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Photo by: MattPattyWhack
"If I had you here, I’d clip your wings"
It’s been too long since I last went on a swing…too long since I last almost believed that flying was possible.
Enough said here.
