Brick Walls
I've been thinking about how people sometimes say 'kicking against the pricks'. I like the word 'bricks' better so let's substitute that in for now. With that substitution, it's a saying that lets you know that you won't get anywhere when trying to knock down the wall because who can bring down a brick wall by kicking it? You'll only get hurt and the brick wall will stay standing, towering over you, mocking your misery. Kicking against the brick wall demonstrates someone's level of patience. Here comes another one of my analogies...:)
The person who kicks against the brick wall is the one who has no patience to make a plan and prepare to take down the wall bit by bit. They just want whatever is on the other side and think that if they kick hard enough they'll get it. But it creates frustration and pain along with NO progress. The moral behind 'kicking against the bricks' is that a person needs to be patient and calm while dealing with the hard things in life. When bad or misery-welcoming things happen, getting past them is bringing down another brick wall. You can't go around it to avoid the problem because then you're just running away. By the end of my life I would want to look back and see a blank, white field. Not a white field littered with half-taken down red walls or untouched red walls, but a pure white field. If I simply run around them the problem that created these walls will never fully go away. So I say get a knife, get a sharp object, get something that can cut the mortar......and start taking the wall down brick by brick. It's hard, tedious work. But that is what life is. Hard. Tedious. But rewarding.
Who knows what you're going to find on the other side of that wall.....maybe another wall.....maybe a scholarship for college.....maybe the death of a loved one.....maybe a proposal of marriage.....maybe a natural disaster.....maybe a loving, patient friend who was there the whole time, watching the wall come down, helping when you felt like giving up, scraping the mortar that you couldn't see.
I found out that misery-welcoming things take time to get over. I understand that now. It surprises me how thick I am sometimes. I've had a lot of misery-welcoming occurrences build themselves up in my life, so when someone else has a huge brick wall I would be able to understand the task they have before them...right? Not everyone works the same way I do, not everyone deals with their brick walls the same way. Some people take longer to get one brick off than others. Sometimes one person has a wall whose mortar isn't fully set so taking bricks off is easier, making the wall come down faster. I just hope patience and calmness stays with me while others take down their walls. I may want one of their walls to come down so fast I am not understanding of how tired they are and I get impatient. So if any of you are taking down walls right now, don't slump down and get frustrated. Let me know if I can start scraping on the other side....I'll let you know if you can start scraping on the other side of mine.
The person who kicks against the brick wall is the one who has no patience to make a plan and prepare to take down the wall bit by bit. They just want whatever is on the other side and think that if they kick hard enough they'll get it. But it creates frustration and pain along with NO progress. The moral behind 'kicking against the bricks' is that a person needs to be patient and calm while dealing with the hard things in life. When bad or misery-welcoming things happen, getting past them is bringing down another brick wall. You can't go around it to avoid the problem because then you're just running away. By the end of my life I would want to look back and see a blank, white field. Not a white field littered with half-taken down red walls or untouched red walls, but a pure white field. If I simply run around them the problem that created these walls will never fully go away. So I say get a knife, get a sharp object, get something that can cut the mortar......and start taking the wall down brick by brick. It's hard, tedious work. But that is what life is. Hard. Tedious. But rewarding.
Who knows what you're going to find on the other side of that wall.....maybe another wall.....maybe a scholarship for college.....maybe the death of a loved one.....maybe a proposal of marriage.....maybe a natural disaster.....maybe a loving, patient friend who was there the whole time, watching the wall come down, helping when you felt like giving up, scraping the mortar that you couldn't see.
I found out that misery-welcoming things take time to get over. I understand that now. It surprises me how thick I am sometimes. I've had a lot of misery-welcoming occurrences build themselves up in my life, so when someone else has a huge brick wall I would be able to understand the task they have before them...right? Not everyone works the same way I do, not everyone deals with their brick walls the same way. Some people take longer to get one brick off than others. Sometimes one person has a wall whose mortar isn't fully set so taking bricks off is easier, making the wall come down faster. I just hope patience and calmness stays with me while others take down their walls. I may want one of their walls to come down so fast I am not understanding of how tired they are and I get impatient. So if any of you are taking down walls right now, don't slump down and get frustrated. Let me know if I can start scraping on the other side....I'll let you know if you can start scraping on the other side of mine.
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