We must travel

In the direction of our fear.
- John Berryman

Fear is not real

"It is a product of thoughts you create.
Do not misunderstand me. Danger is very real. But fear is a choice."

- After Earth (movie script)

Sorrow prepares you for joy

It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter.
It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place.
It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow.
Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.

- Rumi

A matter of choice

I recently realized that healing is not impossible.
But it has to be a choice you make consciously.
It doesn't come in time, it doesn't come when you move to another continent, it doesn't come when somebody else is pampering your wounds.

It comes when you decide to let go to the pain.