...because the running stripped and free along the water's edge will come soon enough.
...because you deserve to feel the sunshine.
...because finding the balance between comfort and freedom is tricky but necessary.
...because I've got your back, even when it's up against the wall.
...because this will only make sense to you, mbt.
hug it.
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Inside the shell it seems like the soft vulnerabilities of all that I feel and all that I am are less exposed somehow, but I am learning that this is just the Treacherous Illusion of the Hermit Crab. The shell giveth, and the shell taketh away.
A difficult lesson is that the shell is only constructive and beneficial when used in keeping with the complicated rules of Balance Man and his creepy, omniscient gazing ball. I have learned to retreat appropriately, but next I must teach myself to carefully unfold from the constrictive and protective barrier between myself and the grown up world. I am making progress, but not on just anybody's timeline; certainly not on mine.
When I feel I am not moving fast enough, I try to remember to ask myself what happens to a flower that is peeled and picked out of its bud too early, or to a chrysalis forcibly opened because overzealous curiosity longs to find out what is inside before the universe stages its bold reveal. At the heart of me I know the answer... but sometimes in sadness, in fear, or just from wanting I forget.
Thanks for reminding me. Tricky indeed.
roger
I think it makes sense to a lot of us. Write more. We need your words.
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