"Before I built a wall I'd ask to know, what I was walling in or walling out?" - Robert Frost
I ask people a lot about building walls and what they are good for and I always get the same answer. "They are good for keeping things out."
But if you ask what else they are good for doing, you wouldn't believe the dead silence that would come your way.
Thinking. Thinking. Thinking. Uh...Alright so I'll give it to you. As good as walls are for keeping things out, they also do a damn good job of keeping things in. Ahhhh. Yes.
This is where we get into trouble. We get into a ton of trouble because whenever we start hurting in life we build our walls higher and higher to protect ourselves.
Unfortunately, when you are building these walls to keep out the negative experiences of life you are also keeping in your gifts and everything else that is positive inside of you. The world never gets to see what you truly have to offer because you are hiding it in your own little prison.
But it gets worse. Since you spent so much time building walls you never built any doors to help you escape from this prison when things get bad.
And as life would have it, it loves to shoot a fiery arrow into your village and start up something good. I think you know where this is going - no fire escape, a fire in the village, and a whole lot of hay laying around - trouble. In fact, chaos arrives when something like that happens and more often than not, everything burns to the ground.
Walls are pretty bad for you. They can tear you apart.
When you shut yourself off from experience life in its fullest and everything that the world has to offer you aren't really living. You're just having an experience of surviving. You're doing whatever it takes to get by but not really out there in the world thriving.
The very walls that you think are protecting you are actually hurting you. They are trapping everything positive inside of you and making you numb. The only way is to let everything out and to experience life in its fullest.
They will never come out when you are living safe inside of your comfort zone.
If you want to have an amazing experience living in this world, you have to tear down the walls.
Scary? Yes of course. But 10 times out of 10 I would rather be on the field of life living than stuck in my own mental prison dying.
Tear down the walls. Take a risk.
I ask people a lot about building walls and what they are good for and I always get the same answer. "They are good for keeping things out."
But if you ask what else they are good for doing, you wouldn't believe the dead silence that would come your way.
Thinking. Thinking. Thinking. Uh...Alright so I'll give it to you. As good as walls are for keeping things out, they also do a damn good job of keeping things in. Ahhhh. Yes.
This is where we get into trouble. We get into a ton of trouble because whenever we start hurting in life we build our walls higher and higher to protect ourselves.
Unfortunately, when you are building these walls to keep out the negative experiences of life you are also keeping in your gifts and everything else that is positive inside of you. The world never gets to see what you truly have to offer because you are hiding it in your own little prison.
But it gets worse. Since you spent so much time building walls you never built any doors to help you escape from this prison when things get bad.
And as life would have it, it loves to shoot a fiery arrow into your village and start up something good. I think you know where this is going - no fire escape, a fire in the village, and a whole lot of hay laying around - trouble. In fact, chaos arrives when something like that happens and more often than not, everything burns to the ground.
Walls are pretty bad for you. They can tear you apart.
When you shut yourself off from experience life in its fullest and everything that the world has to offer you aren't really living. You're just having an experience of surviving. You're doing whatever it takes to get by but not really out there in the world thriving.
The very walls that you think are protecting you are actually hurting you. They are trapping everything positive inside of you and making you numb. The only way is to let everything out and to experience life in its fullest.
They will never come out when you are living safe inside of your comfort zone.
If you want to have an amazing experience living in this world, you have to tear down the walls.
Scary? Yes of course. But 10 times out of 10 I would rather be on the field of life living than stuck in my own mental prison dying.
Tear down the walls. Take a risk.
About the Author:
Evan Sanders is a professional life coach at AYKME coaching. Dive into these great Great Quotes On Happiness or these Quotes On Having Patience to get some motivation to move forward!
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