“If you continue to carry the bricks from your past, you will end up building the same house.”
While exploring one of my favorite friend’s feeds, I stumbled upon this meme. It said: “If you continue to carry the bricks from your past, you will end up building the same house.”
When I saw this, I fell in love with it, so I read it again.
“If you continue to carry the bricks from your past, you will end up building the same house.”
Though simplistic, the message is powerful and profound. It follows the same vein of many other sayings, like:
- “When we hurt, we tend to hurt others.”
- “When we stop caring, we also stop caring about others.”
Though similar this meme is more meaningful. It offers greater wisdom, and in the spirit of the statement it serves as a guide to actually transform your life.
When we have endured horrible heart break, we tend to carry that hurt with us. These bricks often remain even after we have escaped our scenes of pain. They follow our steps like a shadow and loom over us like dark clouds. When the rain inevitably falls, it starts as a sprinkle, transforms into a shower, and thunders into a flash flood. The running waters soak our socks, ruining our shoes, and forcing us to exist in a state of eternal boo-hoo.
When we feel this way, we are destined to recreate the same scenes of suffering. How can we make something new and beautiful if our eyes are still caked with muck and mud? The sweet anger of the past will fuel our future, we will feed others with our pain, and as a consequence they will be the same. Using the bad bricks of our old house, we will construct an identical putrid place. It may be covered with a different paint, but the floor plan and foundations are the same.
“We are what we eat.” In many ways this statement is a universal treat. If we want to stop the cycle, we must break our own. Each brick must be crushed and mourned. We must no longer be the person we were before by giving good energy galore. When we enter a room, we should be searching for ways to transform bad vibes into beautiful ones. When we feed others good energy it encourages them to do the same. Eventually with enough love they too will begin to share the vibrant light of life.
Of course, this is easier said than done.
If we want to break the chain of pain, we must slice out the anger from our actions. This means we must come to terms with the atrocities committed against us, the unreasonable hardships we have been forced to face, and the unfortunate complications of our day.
I learned long ago that the best way to make the world better is by giving goodness for the sake of goodness. If you are searching for something to free your spirit from its shackles of suffering, treat each hurt like a pet you like and love. Nurture, discipline, and mourn each mistake, every horribly unfortunate day, and the feels that lead you astray.
