Is it always a hurt that requires healing? Or do sometimes we must get hurt in order to heal? Do we ever allow ourselves to heal from a hurt completely, fully, totally? Or do we continue to hold on to a few crutches here and there because we are too afraid to get hurt again, too afraid to let go? Sometimes it takes a fall to realize that not only can we walk but that we may actually be able to run as well without those crutches that we had let become extensions to our being.
We know we have healed, not when it does not hurt anymore, but when we are no longer afraid of it hurting again.
