Stitches

Preceding words stand firm, as sentiments and suggestions also. The mind its own worst enemy, it must look beyond the biological battery to combust misfortune and ignite a fuse on evolving environmentally expelled quantities and qualities of factors pertaining to levels of acceptibility of professional, social and recreational presence. Factors outside the range of the shell's five methods of perception being the source and solution for displeasure, present desires are given much a stronger ability and likelihood to wreak havoc among knowledge and truth. The greatest pain in matters beyond flesh is derived from habit, reflex response and longing and the willpower to sacrifice or adjust the state or procedure of matters in such affairs. One cannot weigh desire above all else, lest focus grow so narrow the totality of environment and all encompassed factors is beyond observation. Once agreeably acclimated for extensive durations, comfort in all aspects grows reliant on even nearly-indiscernible factors relevant to the conditions, as does judgment. Miserable, unfulfilling, unproductive and unaltered continuation leads nowhere down many roads: beware the decay in both body and especially mind. The first unsteady step toward change is more than a test of will: It is the first of several progressing punctures of a needle in the process of stitching from which the end result is a healed wound. Though always will a scar remain, as will what-ifs and countless repetitive, ever-shifting scenarios born through the recovery-driven weaving processes of a mind entangled in raging throes of addiction and the accompanying withdrawal symptoms, as with physical wounds, so too do those unseen heal and, as with their physical counterparts, reinforce caution, knowledge and prediction.

The absolute greatest enemy to healing is the risk of further damage or infection. An injury left untreated or exposed risks exactly this, thus the quicker such situations are remedied and the process of recuperation begins, the sooner discomfort, impairment and the threat of further harm is reduced to a minimal. Previously injured components are always more susceptible to damage than an otherwise healthy state, making further fortification or preventative measures nearly, if not completely, necessary. No part of us subject to trauma ever fully heals. Lessons learned and recurring pain due to carelessness quickly assist in reinforcing barriers or protective preparations and ritual, though, the slightest slacking of which can prove immeasurably dangerous to the safety of scars.

The longer a wound is left open, the wider it gets, the longer and more demanding it will be when the crawl of recovery begins.

Cliché, yes, but experience confirms healing takes time. Here, only you can be the hand from which the stitching begins, but even the most respected and experienced doctors and surgeons have hands to assist them, and here these are offered. Let knowledge be the gravity bringing the first thread down.

Even injured criminals are given medical attention. Let decisions come from the mind, words from the heart. Every drop of blood spilled is a drop of life lost.

This is singularly motivated, targeted and intended. The One Right is violated. Let it not last. The single necessary entity for continued existence is oneself. Without the self intact, there is no one.