My Skin

It is all over you. Actually it is the largest organ of the body. It keeps what needs to be kept in, in, and it is our first line of defense for keeping out the things that need to be repelled and stay outside of us. We have it all our lives, from the moment we are born till we die. It stays with us forever. You may lose your hair, teeth, muscles, etc. but this will always be with you. It is literally all you are born with and all you will die with is held within it. It is with you in your most glorious of moments and it is with you in your darkest and hardest of times. We make mistakes, important decisions, laughable jokes, regrettable statements, acts of love, and more inside of it. We are good to it: we bath it and keep it nourished and healthy. Sometimes we treat it badly. We scratch it and tear it and burn it under the suns damaging rays so we look sexier in our bathing suits. Skin. We often say that we know someone skin deep, meaning that we do not know the deep and integral parts of someone’s heart, mind or soul. But I have always said you can learn a lot about a person from their skin. You see, my favorite property of skin is its ability of regeneration. You can burn it, cut it, rub it raw, rip it off, stretch it out, bruise it or poke a hole in it. No matter what you do to the skin with the right amount of time and protection from further abuse it will regenerate. Sometimes it grows back just the way it was- completely hiding the fact that it was ever damaged. Other times, usually after the skin has gone through severe damage, it will leave a scar or be deformed. These scars are something that shows the world that something has happened in the past that was painful and hard to go through. Usually there is an entertaining story about the injury that caused the scar but these stories are often accompanied by a life lesson that was learned the hard way and so resulted in the blemish. I hope this blog is my skin to those of you who read it. I hope that you would see the past that has lead me to this place in my life, this place in my skin. I hope that in these writing the things that are deeper under my skin are seen. The darkest places of who I am and who I have been along with the victories and life lessons learned in this skin will hopefully be able to be told in a way that may help you with who you are in your skin and the scars that you might have from your past. Love. Love.