Handle with care
The heart should come with a warning sign, ‘handle with care’.
Do you remember that first flutter, when impulsively you threw your most valued possession? The spiral of sensibility swirls downwards, and before you realise it, someone’s playing catch with your heart.
You watch as it’s thrown from hand to hand and no matter how high you jump or how hard you try, you can’t claim it back. You just hope that no one drops it. With every catch, another fingerprint is added; a small bruise here, a scratch there…
Why do we think our value lies in someone else’s hands? Your heart was made to share. It’s not that you stop risking, or that you stop throwing your heart out into the public arena; it’s the reason why we throw it out that’s important.
If you throw in order to receive validation, then that’s an invalid pass. Firstly, what you have is worth something even before it’s caught, even before it’s thrown. Secondly, just because someone else can’t catch or plays dirty doesn’t reflect your play, your heart.
It’s in your court. How do you choose to play?
Written by Elin Roberts. Posted on 2nd November.
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