Louise Lague, MA NCC / 

Are we at peace with our battle scars?

  A better use of a scar is to think of it as a battle wound, inflicted in the struggle to grow wise. A risk was taken, and the results were not great. But we survived! We healed! And where there was a vulnerable spot,  there is now a protective layer. We are shielded enough to try again.

We always have a choice about our thoughts, and our thoughts determine how we feel. The only healthy thing you can do with a wound is to figure out what it's trying to teach you, let go if you can't figure it out, let it heal, and move on.

A wound is not a reason to stall a life. All of wisdom and happiness, I think, lay in just staying involved in life, even when the knives are flying.