So here's the deal. You know when people talk about dealing with issues or brokenness, and the need to process through things, and the language that is often used is "unpacking"? Well, we kinda went crazy with that and made this whole box and moving metaphor.
We all have some kind of brokenness in our lives, big or small. Some of us have some pretty intense issues that have affected us in profound ways. And at some point we decide to really dig into those issues and try to move beyond them - it's moving day. You're not okay with your old reality, and you want to move to a healthy, more beautiful place. You get a nice little box and start packing stuff in it. You start looking at your life and your experiences, trying to understand them and how they have affected you. You put all that stuff in a box, and try the best you can to "label" those experiences - family issues, insecurity, guilt, shame, eating disorders, depression... toiletries, shoes, etc. You put them in the box as neatly as you can, and then comes the time to process them and begin to move past them. You get those boxes in the moving van and take them to your new place, your new life. Your new place is different, an alternate reality than what you were living in before. But your issues and broken places aren't gone. They're still there, they're still a part of who you are. And in your new life, in your new reality, you have to unpack those boxes. You have to figure out where all of the experiences fit into this new place. But ultimately you decide where to put them. And it's going to look different than it did before. But the glorious thing is that the contents of the "box," that used to be ugly and broken, can actually make your new reality a beautiful place to take up residence.
I hope that made some kind of sense. It made sense in my head, anyways. Any thoughts?
1 comment:
Mmm... I hear an IV LG talk in the making... tho maybe wait another 10 yr until we actually have interacted with the friendly boxes for a bit. ;o)
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