Old aching

Today I had an interesting chat about “old aches” in our lives; those fractures from old "falls" that seem they have not healed altogether and start to hurt once more on cold nights or during a full moon as if they were happening all over again.  I’m talking about the wounds from our past that we refuse to forget, or at the least, we have not “let go” to simply allow them to heal.  By doing so, we are constantly bringing the past to present conversation.  That is to say, we are making it worse by living life with old aches.

It is so absurd for old aches to condition our present.  My heresy is that old aches and fractures make us more interesting, rich in experience, wise and mature, but that is all they are good for.  We have to live the rest of our life as if we had never fallen down, as if we had never felt any pain, especially the sharp pains of the soul.  My heresy is that the "scar" from learning should remain, but you have to say good-bye to the old ache.  It's time to enjoy the present, in the present.

So, go through the fracture inventory and see which ones are still hurting.  Look them over and sincerely understand how senseless it is to keep on experiencing past aches, when the past does not exist and all we have is today; where we have the choice to smile, or remember yesterday's fall and cry all over again.  What do you choose to do?