You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world...

...but you do have some say in who hurts you.

As human beings, we feel different emotions in our entire existence in this world and one of them is getting hurt. It can’t be avoided but we can choose which people and/or situations we are willing to take the risk of getting hurt.

In this world, there’s always joy and pain. It can’t be always one or the other because they are both needed to see the real beauty of existing as a human being. When it’s always joy that we feel, we may not be able to appreciate the good times at all. Getting hurt and feeling pain can be crucial but they make us appreciative of the good things that come to our life.

From the beginning of my presence in this precious world as a child, I have experienced different ways of getting hurt. I got hurt when I tried to ride a bike. I got hurt when I was playing tag with my friends. I got hurt when I got hit by a volley ball. I got hurt when my puppy got hit by a car. I got hurt when I did not get the position I wanted in one of our plays. I got hurt when my parents scolded me for not getting a high grade in my exam. I got hurt when I fell off a slide. I got hurt when my best friend lied to me. I got hurt when someone broke my heart. The list goes on but I do not regret every single one of them. Yes, the pain was not a good thing but the people and situations that caused the pain of getting hurt were all worth it. The choices I made in the past that led me to experience getting hurt by those people are choices I would choose all over again.

We do have a say on who we are willing to risk getting hurt by. When we give someone our trust, we should also expect the possibility of getting hurt later on because when people we trust do something we may not like, we get hurt. It’s just a matter of choosing who we let affect us and hurt us. Some people might say or do something that they think can hurt us but we all think differently. We interpret things in so many ways. We may get hurt by other people but we can choose not to dwell on the pain and to not let it linger. We always have a choice.

Consequently, the emotions we feel in this world are inescapable especially getting hurt, but we can choose who to share those emotions with. We are the master of our emotions. We can choose who can affect us and who cannot. There’s always an option to let you be hurt or make yourself ignore it.