When you get hurt
Nope, I'm not talking about falling down and scraping your knees and palms as a kid. Neither am I talking about the fresh raw pain you feel when you have to disinfect those wounds with alcohol / iodine.
I'm talking about the hurt in the heart, mind and soul. Words and actions by other people who hurt you, whether on purpose or not. How do you deal with it? It's not something that can be healed with a Band-Aid. How do you forgive but forget at the same time? I know I'm the type to forgive but not forget.... but it's technically not forgiving at all.
Do you sit down at the same spot in your mind and keep crying over it? It's difficult for someone to help you up there in your mind. You'll have to cry enough, and heal on your own.
But will you wanna go on a bicycle ride with the same person who made you cry?? Only to risk getting hurt all over again?? Or would you run for the hills the moment any mention of the person comes up??
There'd be two types of reactions:
1. You feel so much hurt from the person that any mention of the person disgusts you, and you don't want to see this person ever . Anymore. Because it hurt too damn much. And all that's left of what you feel for him/her is hate, nothing else.
2. The amount of pain this person has managed to inflict on you proves how strongly you feel for this person, and how much he/she can affect you. In a way, you can love this person to great depths, but also swing to the other drastic spectrum of feelings.
I don't know which reaction I'm feeling right now, actually.