"The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it." ~C.S. Lewis

Heart. Head. Head Heart. Where does the logic come from?  What enforces it?
For the past few months, I've seen (and been involved in) a lot of emotional battles ranging from topics of work, relationships, money, politics, food, body image, jealousy, age, blahblahblah.
What's up with that.
Isn't it ironic how someone can become so overwhelmed with emotion that the typical result is numbness? I guess, for a poor analogy, it could be considered to be a drug. Too much and you might od. Just the right balance and you feel warm and fuzzy for several hours. Addicting.
Then the aching comes. They both have it; heartache, headache.
You can take a low dose off NSAIDS to help rid the pain in your head, but what do you do for your heart? What takes that pain away?
Not sleep. Not starving yourself. Not drinking. Or physically hurting yourself. Those are bandaids.
People have to look up at some point-in-time, right?
But why not look right beside you. And re-evaluate why you're there in the first place. I always appreciate those friends that tell me what I need to hear, even if I don't want to hear it. *note-said information should be told in a loving manner for those of us who are sensitive (and like it that way...thanks, Jewel).

So what more is there to say about this human struggle? I know, how about ask CS Lewis again?

"But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world."

Word.
Now I just have to take out my earplugs.