Heart's pounding...

‘It is important to forget the past, but it is even more important not to forget it.’
'Hardship is the greatest of anvils'

-the Puppet Master

The past is passed, we hear say. We need to leave things behind, it’s agreeable. We need to let go…now this, however, to some extent. The past, more than our present, has taken a most (if not THE most) important role in defining our role in that movie called ‘Our Lives’.
Sometimes we’d rather forget all the pain we have gone through, those times when our heart has been beaten to a pulp, beaten against a rock until no more blood and tears are left. Forgetting the pain does not protect us, it makes us oblivious to a potential upcoming catastrophe. That grinding of each wall of our hearts may leave cracks, but is it up to us to take that heart in our hand and place it on the flaming forge of our existence. We need to lift a hammer of reality, of recognition of the truth, and use it to pound that heart time and time again. Do it oneself can be more painful, but we don’t learn from the result, we learn best through the process.
We can seal the cracks, we can see where the strength is needed, but only if we are willing to stop covering our eyes to hide from our truth. It may take some time, it may surprise us that some tears are still left. Only after this entire process we will be able to cool it down to reveal an armored heart ready to face the same problem with a different approach.
Lesson learned: Behind each burning wound lies fertile ground for growth, it is up to take advantage of it.