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How Do You Wear Your Scars?
Scars can be sources of pride or regret. What do you choose?
Everyone has scars.
It’s true that some people have no physical scars to show. But emotional, mental, and spiritual scars are just as impactful.
Visible or invisible, scars are a part of life for everyone. Some are very superficial while others run deep. Scars are like receipts — they’re proof of purchase for life.
What does that even mean? Nobody lives in a perfect bubble. Period. Everyone has interactions with other people throughout their lives. Even the most introverted and separated people you know either do or have had interactions with others.
Those interactions — whether physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual — will make impressions. Some are barely noteworthy, while others cut deep literally or figuratively. There are impressions made that fade outside of the immediate moment in which they happen — while there are impressions that sink so deeply into our psyches that they last a lifetime.
Once the impression is made, how it remains, however, is up to you and me. Pride or regret, positivity or negativity, good or bad — you and I choose.
