Sharp Pains

"It takes courage...to endure the sharp pains of self-discovery

rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness

that would last the rest of our lives."

Marianne Williamson

Steaming wallpaper off a wall can be rather taxing, until the mind free falls into subject matter unconsciously.  Unfortunately, there is yet another layer of wallpaper under the one currently being removed.  So again there is repetition in action, arms aching, when we aimlessly consider why and when all this layering transpired.

Hanging wallpaper can be exciting, but usually it is covering something up like a damaged wall.  Time passes and we outgrow the pattern so we choose another to be applied.  Is this not what we do in life?  Do we not continuously place layer over layer that which needs to be corrected?

Two layers of wallpaper removed,  holes in the wall finally filled and trim repaired, wondering if  this would not have been easier to have corrected in the very beginning.  And that is life, layer after layer of avoidance and denial until we find the courage to dig deeply and unearth original form.