What we think, what we feel belongs to us. Our pain is not the result of how someone has treated us, it is our reaction to their action. We own our thoughts. We own our feelings. We just don't realize it. It takes a journey through a jacked up jungle of what appears to be ill-timed jinxes for us to come to a reckoning place with our pain. If we let it, the pain piles on us like a plague. It fills all the crevices of our being. It invades our mind, our muscles and our memory. We forget we ever existed without pain. It consumes us...if we let it. I let it and for a time, it consumed me. It nearly broke me. But the most important truth of it all that I had to come to cold, hard grips with was that I let it consume me. I allowed myself to be held prisoner by the pain. I held the key the whole time. The whole time! Silly simple solution right in front of me the whole time. The love and joy was there all along but I allowed it to be covered up by all the pain. Ins...