"Lumpy Rugs"

Over the past few days, I’ve come face to face with many of my insecurities and fears…anxieties and vulnerabilities from the past that I assumed were “out of sight and out of mind” were actually just swept under rugs, waiting for the perfect time to make appearances.

These “lumpy rugs” as I call them are what hold us all back from establishing and maintaining stable friendships and relationships.

They are what keep us from having clear minds and clear hearts.

They are what prevent us from being able to find room to accommodate those who have our best interests at heart.

They are what bind us to past situations and past people, in fear that the characteristics of those circumstances and individuals will take precedence in our current lives.

They are what cause us to have narrow mindsets, assuming that every person is the same as the one person who hurt us.

By constantly sweeping our issues under rugs that we assume to be points of no return, we are actually creating obstacles.

These obstacles, in turn, make it difficult for those who genuinely care about us and who want to love us to enter the homes of our lives and safely make it to our couches of comfort without stumbling over issues that they had no role in creating.

We have to stop punishing the people who love us for things that the people who could care less about us did.

We have to stop reacting negatively to our present friends and partners when their actions remind of us our ex-friends and partners.

Everyone is not out to get you and every action that is similar does not have the same intent.

Confront your issues head on instead of sweeping them under rugs and make it your business to take nothing from the past, but a lesson learned.

Have a blessed day and thanks for reading!!