Small bites

Broken people

Broken people. The hard part about them is they don't see themselves as broken. Lost maybe. Victims surely. But never broken. And the thing that kills me most, they have the power to fix it, and rarely do. Maybe it's because they lost their way and didn't know how to shore up their defenses. Maybe it's because they believe there's nothing left worth saving. Maybe it's because they believe they don't have anything left to give. The bottom line is: their beliefs shape their outcome, as all beliefs do.

What makes it volatile is when you shed light on this brokenness, with your own patched up pieces and no longer fit the broken pieces, because you tried to heal your own. There's no longer the comfort of the familiar, a wall where there used to be acceptance, and that can feel like sandpaper on those broken pieces you haven't healed yet. You may even try cutting into the freshly put up walls so that it fits, the way your comfortable with, even if it's a poor fit.