Quote Me.

13

Someone once asked me what happened to the innocent girl I was. I said she was never real.
We all build up walls. Different unique walls to protect ourselves. We think we're waiting for the decay to set in and the walls to finally come down, when what we really are waiting for is that one person to knock them down. That one person to break through to our most vulnerable place and make us feel safe.

What happened to that innocent girl? The world happened.
That innocent girl built her walls to keep safe. Over time her friends knocked them down. Then they were gone and the walls came back up.

The world took her innocence and kindness. It was replaced with reality. Reality taught her to keep the walls up. To build them back up when people broke them down, even if the people remained within. Those people who stayed became her true friends. And they know that deep down, under the hard shell and defense mechanism she created to protect herself, that the kind innocent girl still exists.
She just keeps a neutral  standing to stay safe and let's the insanity come in when the fun comes out. She knows when to work and when to play. And she knows her friends know. They know she's broken and used but they don't care. They know that, like her, that the heart heals over time, some things just leave scars.

So I embrace the scars, the heart, even the time. Let them show, let them be seen. Make it known to all that we are cracked, broken, and scared. For it makes us who we are.