The analogy of life and people and pimples ....

Today no picture. Is that because there is nothing to take a picture of ? Hardly, there are just too many choices.
No blog posting for a few days. Is that because there is nothing to write about? Hardly, there are just too many choices.

At times in our lives, there is just too much going on ... too much information in our brain...information overload. The amount of information coming in becomes crowded. The crowding makes it more difficult to sort. When you can't sort, you can't see each piece. When you can't see each piece, you can't focus on anything in particular. The lack of focus becomes frustrating and the frustration builds. When the frustration builds ... it is like one of those giant pimples on your chin that plagued you as a teenager. (crude analogy, but definitely creates a mental picture of where I am going with this)

As you have already guessed .... there comes a point when "it all" cannot be contained anymore. The overload has reached a climax and SOMETHING HAS TO HAPPEN. That is when the "burst" occurs. That is when the information that has been crowding your brain, crowding your life just erupts and it spews and it creates a mess and you are left with an open wound. A wound that can be visible to others ... and you are embarrased by that giant red mark on your chin for all the world to see. But that is OK.

You still have all that information that needs to be sorted, but now it is not crowded. It is scattered. Each piece can be picked up. Each piece can be sorted. Each piece of all this information can be taken and looked at and filed in its proper place. The wound heals. And life goes on. Sometimes there is a scar, but healing, to some extent, has occurred.

The pimples of life usually involve people. Relationships. Coming and going. Birth and death and all the interaction and changes in the middle.

Some people in our lives are pimples. They can create a wound. But if you take time .. the wound will heal. Life goes on ... at least until the next pimple comes along. But we will deal with that one when the time comes.