Healing through a retrospective fire
Remembering things in retrospective is so important for us to grow and heal ourselves. Sometimes, it’s just about looking back at what’s happened and how to improve upon it for the future. It’s the only way to get better and grow. We can’t grow if we stay comfortable and never change.
Dwelling on things too long isn’t beneficial either, but, if you dwell on the correct things temporarily, you can find a missing piece to the puzzle you are trying to solve in your brain.
In order to recognize something needs to be changed, that something needs to be visible in retrospect to go over it and understand the causes, actions and reactions to be better prepared to fight the fires of your own mind.
Unfortunately, damage will always occur when healing is involved, because damage can be a necessary evil that must occur in order to grow: You need to start a fire in order to know how to blow it out.
Sometimes, you need to get burned in order to know how to heal that burn, because once you learn how to heal it, it’s not as scary or intimidating when another fire happens.
Once you learn how to bandage your wound, it’s not as painful or scary as the first time it happens. The healing can only take place once the environment around it (the bandage) is conducive to healing.
It’s only scary when you forget that you need to heal yourself and let yourself get carried away by the flames.
- Cecilia J. Enriquez, INFJ
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