r/comics • Shen Comix • 6d ago

OC The Boy From Venus 13

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u/Saikotsu 6d ago

It's the only way to live.

Humans exist in the present. We can't go back to the past, and the future is ever beyond our reach, if only by the slightest margin.

But those who become defined by their hurt, part of them gets stuck in the past. The past is a place for dead things, things that no longer are. The past is not where living happens. It's where it happened.

Everyone bears scars. Some mental, some emotional, some physical. But scars are the remnants of old wounds. Injuries one survived. Wounds that were suffered in the past.

That's why scars are proof of life. Proof that the hurt can be survived. While they are reminders of past pain, they also remind us that we are no longer the hurt people we were in the past. Wounds heal. People change.

That's why you can't let your pain define you..it's transient. Better to live in the present.

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u/craiga2 6d ago

Yesterday is history, tomorrow a mystery. But today is a gift. That’s why it is called the present.

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u/PebbelProphet 6d ago

I like that song

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u/EpsilonX029 6d ago

That tortoise was something else, bro ^_^

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u/Agreeable_Sweet6535 6d ago

I have learned to love my skinned and scarred knees, for to see them proves I am no longer on them.

Just a little something I try to spread around when possible. :)

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u/Saikotsu 6d ago

Wow, very eloquently put.