Pandora's Box

by Jenni Marie   May 17, 2013


It's kind of amusing how I thought I could close the door on my past and lock it away, stuffing it inside a wooden box that resides deep within my mind. I buried the key adamant I would never need it again because this wasn't a box to be unlocked. It was to be kept safe in storage, collecting dust. Only now after all these years I'm realising that I need to find that key and unlock my secrets. I need to unlock my pain and allow myself to feel it.

Because even though that box is safely hidden away, it's always there at the back of my mind, and like a can of soda that has been kicked around like a football, it's just waiting for the right time to explode. Because I never allowed myself to work through the pain, instead I numbed myself to it and it's only now I'm starting to think more clearly about things that I'm beginning to realise I need to allow myself to experience it in order to overcome it, even if it means tears will eventually be shed.

And even if I fall prey to tears I know now that they will not last forever. I'm allowing myself to feel the pain of the past so that I can overcome it and come out on the other side of it, even better than before. I'm allowing myself to become temporarily weaker...in order to become stronger.

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  • 11 years ago

    by Courageous Dreamer

    Sometimes you do have to go through the worst to get better. I feel it's just a stage in life. Perhaps this is what makes us all appreciate life that much more. I liked the idea of Pandora's box though, that was brilliant. You know that if you 'open' it you're asking for consequences. Such a perfect metaphor to describe how your life has been. If you resort to the past & bad habits, you're more than likely going to pay the consequences of this and perhaps not get better since you're not looking towards the future. It's never healthy to find yourself stuck in the past.

    Also loved this metaphor because hope was associated with it. I don't know the whole story perfectly, but I do know they are connected because hope was left in the box and when Pandora opened the box all the evils were let out, yet hope remained because it's essential, it's exactly what one needs.

    Love how you went about this! It's just so fitting. Well done!

  • 11 years ago

    by Courageous Dreamer

    Sometimes you do have to go through the worst to get better. I feel it's just a stage in life. Perhaps this is what makes us all appreciate life that much more. I liked the idea of Pandora's box though, that was brilliant. You know that if you 'open' it you're asking for consequences. Such a perfect metaphor to describe how your life has been. If you resort to the past & bad habits, you're more than likely going to pay the consequences of this and perhaps not get better since you're not looking towards the future. It's never healthy to find yourself stuck in the past.

    Also loved this metaphor because hope was associated with it. I don't know the whole story perfectly, but I do know they are connected because hope was left in the box and when Pandora opened the box all the evils were let out, yet hope remained because it's essential, it's exactly what one needs.

    Love how you went about this! It's just so fitting. Well done!

  • 11 years ago

    by Tara Kay

    It is a misconception that crying means we are weak, it doesn't, it means we are human and we are releasing the things that we feel, we need to have a good cry now and again, just get it out, heal ourselves, and it works...don't bottle it up inside, it will consume you...

    You are taking the right steps forward and you have a lot of support, you deserve to find the good and let the bad go, don't try and make everything go away, it won't but just working through the past and the things that you feel will help you...it really will

    x

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