The Great Wall

Has your love and thoughtfulness towards a loved one been sodomized by their careless indiscretion?

The Great Wall of China may have been constructed over multiple centuries; from the first emperor Qin Shi Huang through the Ming Dynasty, over 2,000 years of progress, but for most of us it only takes a short dark period for us to build our protective walls. However, whether it takes many, many, many years and countless deflating moments or whether it takes but one fatal blow for your walls to appear, it takes far more work and effort to penetrate it and to make those walls crumble.

Breaking down our barriers and allowing a person into our heart is tough, let alone if you have been hurt in the past. It’s so easy for us to clam up and suppress the feelings of true joy, love, care, and happiness that someone could bring us and the biggest problem with these walls is that they keep the potential good out. They keep us from finding happiness, from being content with the things we have. There is always a reason to push someone away. ALWAYS! There is always an obstacle to overcome. ALWAYS!

But, whatever your obstacles are, each and every one of us needs to face these issues head on and address them.

Exposing yourself is a very scary thing, especially for men. That little big word, “FOREVER” is terrifying. But, if we work at it and tear down the great wall, we open ourselves up to possibilities unimaginable. Yes, we may have opened our self to every insatiable “love” disease but the older I get the more I find the concept of waking up next to someone who knows me as good as I do or better seems more liberating than the concept of “safety.”

A great wall is generally constructed after someone else’s indiscretion, someone else’s abuse. So, you can’t always fault someone for having this protection. All you can do is show them, through your actions and words, that you mean no harm and that you truly care about their well being. And since about everyone on earth have these walls, they will only be broken down by the people who truly care about you. 

Comments

[Dominique Petrick]

Walls...... What walls? I have no idea what you are talking about.

[Jennifer Nisi]

Very true Chad...the older I get, the more I am hurt, the higher my wall has gotten and I feeling like it is never gonna be broken down ever again...