Your wound is your gift.

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You should check out the board book of Jane Eyre made for babies. It's the saddest thing. I got a copy for my godson but couldn't part with it.





How sad is that?

Let's ask Charlotte Brontë about wounds...

You might want to take a look at this article, which discusses what the Apostle Paul means by thorn in his flesh. That passage from Paul’s 1st letter to the church in Corinth, the way this author interprets it, does clear it up somewhat.

https://www.thestandard.co.zw/2017/05/2 ... uls-flesh/

If that gets you through the night.

Maybe I'm simplistic----but I don't believe any "wound" is a "gift"----unless, in the process of the wound healing, you gain insights that could serve as a "gift."

we do. but the wound itself is still malignant. and the crimes commited against us are not justified by the spiritual elevation we go through. its not a gift when u have to pay for it. in pain, in blood, in years of life u could've spent more productively than getting out of a marian rift u were thrown in. there nothing benighn.

Many malignancies are treatable. And some of them can be totally gotten rid of.

I don't believe that a "broken" person is one who cannot be "fixed."

Things break. And things get fixed.

when the paper's crumpled up, it cant be perfect again
also, kraft. we are not things. we are people. u cant duct-tape a person... there is no "spare parts" to replace, either.
my mindscape is defined, if not entirely consisting, by wounds and scar tissue. and i will allways be damaged, no matter what.

Obviously, we are not "things." We are complex human beings. I know, pretty well, how complex we are.

But we can get "fixed." We don't have to remain in a bad state in many instances. Sometimes, it's true, the "break" is permanent. Even then, though, a person could strive to intervene on his/her own behalf.

I've been "yelled at" for this before. And I'll be "yelled at" for this again. I've been called nasty names, even.

But I just don't believe that a "break" is always a permanent "break." I don't believe we should stop trying to at least work towards "fixing" something. Or treating something. Or making something at least slightly better.

i dont stop working. i think u know me enough to see that. but i am damaged beyond repair, and i want that to be acknowledged. no nasty naming. just believe a person, who does know herself. this is the thing about cptsd, kraft. it defines a person just as much as autism does. it cannot be separated and removed. same as a missing limb cannot be regrown. i wish for cyborg augmentation xD

It can go in many ways in my case. I can even make out concepts more than out of all options.
There are times, that I do learn a lot from it and appreciate the opportunity. And there are times, that I'd wish to never having to deal with it regardless of what to gain and loss with it.

It just varies from time to time.
I cannot vote 5, since my choice would be, well, 'all' or 'contradictory'.

Even my pride, if pride happens to be my driving mood goes either ways;
No pain, because any pain is unacceptable and it means weakness -- seek more power and immunity instead.
Or, no pain means a copout cowardice and the lack of acceptance means immaturity.

Even the certainties and uncertainties; to be the same despite that, or to never be the same ever.

What more with more or less, or even lack of pride? What more would it be if my stance happened to be egocentric or allocentric? What more if my mood sets on certain sights and my state of mind on another?
If I were at my worse state, I would've been offended and likely ignore this thread. If I were at my best self, I would've agreed with all positives out of it.



TLDR; Depends on my mood. I'm too inconsistent to side with either.

From the perspectives of my upbringing and culture; it'll likely agree to it in a more spiritual (NOT necessarily religious) inclined settings. Because suffering is one of the traits here that said to be a 'test' or some sort, therefore a blessing.
But it won't agree with times and places that have more materialistic and competitively (NOT necessarily progressive) ruthless inclinations where sociopathic tendencies reigns.

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I acknowledge it. I acknowledge there are some things one cannot fix.

And I acknowledge that you do work at it.