healing kendera oh my goodness, this skin is healing. i am alive after all...... 010713 ... tessa but am I still me? 040728 ... user24 of course, but you're not the you you were. 040729 ... pilgrim The Constant Rebuilding Countering the Endless Passing Away At Cellular Levels Of the Billions of Individual Members Of This Biological Confederation Lifting The Primordial Essence From the Ancient Sleeping Seas Towards The Shimmering Starlight Forgive Us Our Trespasses 040730 ... tessa So I am a new me? (sorry newme) That means the oldme, after healing, is never the same. Healing, in the sense of restoration and repair, can never happen. Oldme is gone forever, it's all newmes from now on. 040730 ... user24 newme changes to oldme every second. you are constantly being reborn. 040730 ... tessa Isn't there any bit that stays the same? 040730 ... user24 things get added, changed and taken away, but only the whole is different, most of the parts remain the same. 040802 ... tessa the same but not the same oldme and newme in one 040802 ... tessa nothing is the same nothing is lost life is hurting and healing? hurt to heal heal to hurt 040802 ... hmmm! i find this interesting) 040802 ... silentbob now the catharsis can begin 040803 ... user24 yes, nothing is lost. we heal to heal to heal. a never ending spiral of strength. each time we heal, it is because of a need to change, be it hurting, or learning, or a million other causes. healing doesn't always feel good, and we don't always want to heal. but heal we must. 040806 ... .nom lips 050207 ... tessa is dying the final healing? 051207 ... raze if the things that live inside my head and chest were as resilient as my body has proven itself to be, how unstoppable would i be? it's almost always a slow process of stitching the torn parts back together, trying to restore some semblance of order, with mixed results. it's never quite the way it was before. but that isn't always such a bad thing. 130810 what's it to you? who go blather from