When you were a kid, even when your crayon broke you still used it didn’t you? No? Why not, it was still full of color and now you had 2 of the same color. Or, did it spoil the new box feel or look?
How long did it take you to go back and use that particular color after you found out you needed it. Okay, so you avoided it for a while. But then it became time when you could not finish your picture, until you went ahead and picked up that color you broke.
What did you discover when you finally used that broken crayon? It still had the same color didn’t it. Come on admit it, that broken crayon still worked as well as the other ones didn’t it.
So why it it, just because something is broken do we immediately think the worse? Why do we feel as though it will never be the same anymore? Why was that broken crayon not good enough anymore?
There are so many people walking around who are broken and although they are not standing up in that box where you can see them anymore, they are still there. These beautiful people who are ‘broken’ have broken hearts, but they are still good enough and they still deserve to be looked at proudly as the beautiful soul they always were.
Being broken is having a broken heart, they are not damaged goods that cannot function very well any longer. In fact, someone who is broken with a broken heart will finally realise they can only heal themselves one way, by themselves.
What mends comeone who is broken with a broken heart, jumping back in the box ready to play again? No, that is absolutely not how a person who is borken with a broken heart mends at all and in fact, it is just the opposite!
Being broken and having your heart broken can be due to a lot of different reasons. There are as many different ways of handling and coping with a broken heart as there are people on this earth.
Breakup, divorce, deceit, deception, death, dishonesty, loss, job loss, betrayl, illness, debt, any thing or any way you want to call being broken has a very long list, and these are only the very short general list of reasons a person and a heart can be broken. The facts only lie within the victims heart and soul which are not for public knowledge.
It is important to remember, no two people going through the same issue will ever handle it in the same way or time. Why? Every living person on this earth is made up differently in their minds and souls.
Is that person finished and never to be the same again? No, they are not but their amount of time for repair can never be rushed because the pain from a broken individuals heart knows no time. The pain may never be recovered, but their life can be mended by coping.
Coping is a sort of ‘mending’ process of the person who is broken and whose heartful soul has been altered by something or someone. By learning how to cope with the issues they are going through, someone who has a broken heart, learns. They learn by themself how to live with the pain in a way that will allow them to function again. Does the coping process ever go away? Usually not, however, millions of people are living functional lives very well and have learned on their own, how to live a complete life again as they grow everyday building their own strength.
Just because you have been, or are now, broken does not mean you will never be able to stand up tall in the box and shine your colors again. You will be brighter than ever with a great deal of strength, if only you give yourself time with an open mind.
A broken crayon, still colors … linda frame
