Another wonderful bit o' writing from CrazyTracy

When the time is right I always ask my patients a question. I want them to think about what it means to feel. If you could choose between a lifetime of pain and heartache and a lifetime of feeling absolutely nothing at all, which would you choose? Granted, these people have been numbing any and all feelings with drugs and alcohol for years. But the answer is always the same. "I'd choose pain."

Yes. Because pain is feeling. Because pain is alive. Because pain is all about making you aware of the time and space between the ticks on that clock...where life is unfolding before you and around you and within you.

It is the fear of pain that makes most of us run away from it. It is the fear of heartache and disillusionment that makes us do whatever we can to keep from getting hurt. You have to learn to love pain. You have to let yourself get filled up with it. You have to walk around with it and live with it and carry it in your pocket. Until you do that, you will always be afraid.

Most of my patients know that.

Some are still running away.